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AN is a nomad. In his natural 
state, before he was hampered '>- 
by the conventionalities of so- " 
ciety, or the demands of trade and I 
commerce, he wandered aimlessly 
from hither to yon. Where his tepee 
or skin-covered hovel was pitched, there was his 
home. The modern man inherits the instincts of his 
aboriginal forefathers and wanders from his native 
heath as far as his purse strings will allow and when- 
ever the opportunities offer. This spirit of exploratum 
this ever-strong instinct of the human race to penetraK 
into unknown countries, and sail trackless seas, led the Egyptians 
p^-^ three thousand years before Christ to build vessels, the prows of 
' which they decorated with carved images of goddesses, whose smiles 
were sought upon their explorations. It led the Norsemen across the 
: o-reat Atlantic, and was the ruling inspiration of Columbus, as it 
- has been that of all the explorers down to the days of Livingston, 
Greeley and Peary. It has peopled continents and made the deserts 
■bloom, created commerce and girdled the world with lines of ship and 
rail. It has made all men brothers, and has wiped 
out the intellectual boundaries of the universe. 

There is, perhaps, no nation in which this inborn 
instinct to travel is stronger than in the American. 
Go where you will, you find the country webbed with railroads, 
and the stations and trains filled with an ever-restless throng. 
Stand upon the piers and see the ocean steamers leave, then- 
decks crowded with tourists, and the wharves with people who 
secretly stifle the wish that thev too were going, as they bid the 
happv travellers ban voyage. The spirit of travel is universal. 
Northerners go South for the winter and Southerners come 
to the mountains and seashores of the North for the summer. 





PLANT SYSTEM 



Eastern people spend vacation da^-s 
in the West and Westerners come 
East. Families migrate in sum- 
mer as regularly as the birds start 
south at the first motion of Jack 
Frost's magic wand. Scientists 
tell us there is life in motion of 
inanimate nature-: and so, too, 
there must be intellectual and 
physical life and health in the ever 
swinging pendulum of a moving 
humanity. 

Americans have discovered 
within recent years that there are 
some provinces by the sea, located 
as the mariners would say nor' 
nor' east of us, which for whole- 
some climate and varied sights 
offer a greater wealth of attractions 
during summer days than is pos- 
sessed by any other nearby region. 
Geographers have given to them 
name of the Maritime Provinces, 
they embrace Nova Scotia, with outlying- 
Cape Breton Island, New Brunswick and 
Prince Edward Island. This modern 
discovery has turned a great tide of tour- 




the 
and 




' The fleets of pleasure yachts which Hy across the waves lik< 
of vvliite-winged birds. 



ist travel toward their shores, for each 
returning traveller has told with ardent 
enthusiasm of the charming climate, the 
novel sights and scenes, the foreign 
atmosphere and quaint customs, the 
hospitality of the people ; and lastly, but 
by no rtieans the least important facts, that 
the country is but one night away from 
Boston, and the journey may be made 




.Shapini; her course down the harbor whose shores are dotted 
with historical points." 

in the fleetest, safest and most luxur- 
ious ocean steamships, and at an ex- 
pense so trifling that the trip is within 
reach of those in the most moderate cir- 
cumstances. 

The interest of the journey to the 
Maritime Provinces begins 
the moment the steamer takes 
on life and the screws start 
their revolutions at the Boston 
wharf. Slowly the great ship, 
a veritable floating palace, 
draws away from her pier. 
The gay crowds on deck, full 
of delightful anticipations of 
the trip, wave adieus to the 
friends who have thronged 
I lie wharf to see them off ; and 
then, as the vessel shapes 
her course and turns her prow 
seaward, those on deck gather 
in little groups to enjoy the 
varied scenery of Boston's 
beautiful harbor. While the 
city, with the gilded dome of 
the State House and scores 
of spires and well-known land marks sink 
slowly into the horizon, Castle Island, 
Fort Warren, Fort Independence and 
other points freighted with Revolutionary 
memories in the harbor are passed in 
rapid succession, and over to the left a 
panoramic view is had of the busy city 
of Lynn, Revere Beach, Swampscott, 
Deer Island, Winthrop and fashionable 
Nahant, with its charming sum- 
mer homes by the sea. 

Pemberton and Nantasket, 
the Manhattan Beach and great 
])leasure resorts of Boston, are 
to be seen to the right as the 
stately ship carefully inakes her 
way down the channel through 



.liiary in Halifax." 



the fleet of pleasure yachts 
and fishing sloops, square 
rigged ships and tramps of 
the sea; and then, as the pilot 
shapes his course out between 
the Boston and twin lights, 
standing like sentinels at 
either side of the deep sea 
gateway of Boston harbor, the 
horizon widens, the broad 
Atlantic unrolls majestically 
before you and its tempered 
breezes sweep across the 
decks, bringing roses to faded 
cheeks and strength and vital 
ity to the weary. 

A journey by sea is (>\ 
itself a delight; for there i- 
attached to the very life aboard 
ship, a charm and novelty. 
It is refreshing always in its 
absolute freedom from the noise, tur- 
moil and dust of travel by rail, no matter 
how much luxury inay surround the latter, 
and no where 
else can be had 
such com- 
plete relaxa- 
tion and 
u n i n t e r - 
r u p t e d 
rest. 




warehouses of the Plant l.i. 

ipany's colors, and are the finest in lialitd 



again it is a school of graceful porpoises 
giving your vessel a race for a half mile 
or so and then disappearing as suddenly 
as they came in sight. 

You are impressed with the perfect 
system aboard ship. There is none bet- 
ter, even on the crack ocean liners, ever\-- 
thing is literally in ".ship shape," and 
when you go below to meals you will find 
them served in a dining saloon, the fur- 
nishings of which are not only in excel- 
lent taste, but rich in wood and tapestry. 
And what meals ! The markets of Boston 
and those of Halifax have been levied 
■acies from mount- 
uid meadow of 




ck English regiments are always stationed at Halifax, w hich is the strongest 
fortified British stronghold oh the American continent" 



You make friends of your com- 
panions of the voyage. By com- 
mon consent the ship's company 
becomes one great family for the 
time being. You saunter about 
the decks, and nap in easy chairs; 
you forget the busy work-a-day 
world vou have left behind you 
and interest yourself in the inci- 
dents of the hour. Now it is a 
whale spouting over to the left ; 



Nova Scotia, served with toothsome 
meats from the Western prairies and the 
•specialties of New England, furnish a 
menu the like of which no king or prince 
of Europe can boast. 

You forget time except as you may 
hear the half-hours struck on the ship's bell 
forward. The day is gone before you 
realize it, and you watch the king of 
the heavens as he slowly relinquishes his 
sceptre to the stars and sinks majestically 




' The I'ublic Gardens m Halifax are a source of great pride to the citizens, and 
are beautifully laid out and maintained." 




''In the great dr\ d.nk .it II 
British man-ot-\vai 



below the watery horizon. And 
then the twilight, that lovlie.st of 
all times at sea, follows, and 
night and darkness close in 
and a hush comes over every- 
thing. You hear naught but 
the hum of happy conver- 
sation about you and the 
indistinct throbbings of the 
great engines far below 
you which are driv- 
ing the ship with 
mighty energy 
along her course. 
You retire and 
say "goodnight" 
to America and 
awaken after a 
glorious rest to 
say "good morn- 
ing" to Nova 
Scotia, for when 
you go up on 
deck you see 
over on the port 
side the shores 
of this fair land, 
with here and 
there a light 
house, and a 
village gleaming white in the early morn- 
ing's sun, with fleets of fishing boats lying 
at anchor or making sail in the cliff-shel- 
tered harbors. And then you realize 
that you are in sight of foreign shores, 
and have been but one night out from 
Boston, that vou have crossed the cor- 
ner of the broad Atlantic and are at the 
threshold of one of most charmingly 
interesting regions on the continent. 

That you have been able to do this ; 
that this 'great vacation land of North 
America is now so easy of access, is due 
to the sagacity, foresight and enter- 
prise of the 
Canada -Atlan- 
tic and Plant 
Steamship 
Line, univer- 
sally known as ^. A 
the Plant Line, t'-'/ 
whose superb |^. 
fleet embraces 
the "Grand 
Duchess," the 
"Halifax" and 
"Olivette." 

Two round 

trips a week are 

made between 

Boston and Halifax and one, a longer one, 

between Boston and Charlottetown, the 

capital and chief city of Prince Edward 

Island, by way of Hawkesbury and the 



straits of Canso, which divide 
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. 

If there is any one man to 
whom Americans owe a debt of 
gratitude for the magnificent 
plans he has made to enable 
people to enjoy the pleasures 
of travel, 'that man is 
Henry B. Plant, 
president of the 
great and com- 
prehensive Plant 
system of rail- 
roads and steam- 
ship lines. He 
has not only 
made a paradise 
out of western 
Florida, but has 
erected at Tam- 
pa Bay, at an 
expense of more 
than $2,000,000, 
the most mag- 
nificently plan- 
ned and luxuri- 
ously furnished 
resort palace in 
America, and 
has made it pos- 
sible by his railroad service for the travel- 
ler to reach there quickly and in great 
comfort from the chief cities North and 
West. He has made Winter Park, in 
the lake regions of Florida, an ideal re- 
sort, and provided in the Seminole a 
hotel at which the traveller from the 
North may find all the joys and pleasures 
of a semi-tropical existence. He has 
reached further south, and the steamers 
of his line, the favorite, "Mascotte" and 
other steamships, ply regularly all the 
year between Tampa Bay and Havana, 
Cuba, forming a popular tourist route. 



\\\i,\K there is almost always a 
being overhauled." 




'The harbor reverberates 



ith the heavy salutes from the ships i 
has its rendezvous at Halifax." 



and offering a delightful winter's excur- 
sion to the tropics at small expense. 
From Tampa Bay, where he has built, 
right over the water, a good half mile 




"The lighthouse which has guided many a craft to the 
entrance of this noble harbor." 

from the shore proper, the quaint Tampa 
Bay Inn, steamers also make regularly 
appointed tours to Jamaica, affording a 
chance to many travellers to spend a 
week or so on this gem of the Antilles. 
While all this great development 
has been pushed vigorously in the South 
by Mr. Plant, he has at the same time 
been improving his lines between the 
United States and the Maritime Prov- 
inces. He was one of the first to fore- 
see what has since been so abundantly 
proven, that Nova Scotia and Prince 
Edward Island were the most desirable, 
summering spots within easy access 
for Americans, and that they would, 
as they have now become, the favorite 
and chosen regions for health as well 
as pleasure seekers. The policy of the 
entire Plant System reflects the gene- 
rous, broad-minded spirit of its creator. 
It is not to see just how little can be 
done for its patrons to keep them from 
complaining, but rather to do all for 
them, and give them every conven- 
ience and luxury that good executive 
management considers the business will 
stand. 

Thus it has b.- 
cnme an axiom 
I inong travelers that 
one is al- 
""' waj'S c e r- 

tain of find- 
ing the very 
best of ac- 
commoda- 
tions upon 
the steam- 
ships of 
this line. 
Your ship 
is sure to 
be staunch, 
fast, well- 
e quipped 
and well- 



manned, if it flies the Plant Line pen- 
nant at the foremast. Your stateroom 
\vill be large, well-ventilated and your 
bed and linen immaculate. You will find 
the ofificers courteous and obliging, and 
what is of more importance, thorough 
seamen of long training, for there is 
not a captain on the line, or any officer 
of the higher grades, who has not gained 
his nautical knowledge by many years 
of practical experience. 

The shores of Nova Scotia which 
are in view from the decks of the Plant 
Line steamers some hours before reach- 
ing Halifax have been likened to those 
of Norway. They are indent- 
ed wnth innumerable deep 
harbors and inlets and 
frowning and rocky 
f^ promontories and 





many 




" The only building now remaining of those upon the 
Duke of Kent's estate is the band house." 

sea-swept ledges. Along toward noon, 
on the day after leaving Boston, Che- 
bucto Head Light and the Devil's 
Island Light, which stand as sentinels 
at the entrance of Halifax harbor, are 
sighted. A half hour's run and the ship 
has crossed the line between them and 
is plowing her way up the harbor. Mean- 
time the flag of the Plant Line has been 
hoisted upon the citadel, for this is al- 
ways done as soon as one of these ships 
are sighted. In the distance may be 
caught a shadowy glimpse of the city, 
while along the shores are little coves, 
where hardy fishermen dwell, whose 
crafts fly out to sea in the early morning 
on the wings of the wind, and return at 
nightfall like a great flock of tired birds. 
Martello tower of historic fame, and now 
a light-house on Macnab's Island (which 
although the picnic grounds of the city is 
heavily fortified) is pointed out, and a 
moment afterward George's Island, a 
quiet, harmless looking bit of land 
dropped in mid harbor. But the tourist 
is told that this innocent bit of land is 
honeycombed far below the water line, 
and its hidden batteries of powerful 



" The majestic Sebastopol monument is one of the many 
interesting objects." 




' Halifax is a busy, prosperous city, substantially built, and t f characteristics decidedly foreign 




'The Post Office at Halifax is Tntilish in its archin . tin- 
and tjpical of all the bubincbs buildinsjs of the citx ' 

modern guns, and connecting submarine 
torpedo mines would give the greatest 
man-of-war as much to think about as the 
man had who knocked down the hornet's 
nest. These fortifications with the im- 
pregnable York Redoubt on the western 
shore, the heavymasked batteries in Point 
Pleasant Park on the tip of the penin- 
sula, and those off the harbor mouth, to 
say nothing of a score or more of less im- 
portance, all modernly ecjuipped and 
thoroughly manned, would make the ap- 
proach to Halifax of a hostile war vessel 
an exceedingly interesting occasion. If 
the ship should show no disposition to 
withdraw, half the water in the harbor, 
and the ship with it, could be thrown into 
the air by the explosion of the electrically 



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connected chain of torpedo mines quietly 
slumbering in these piping times of 
peace in their .submarine berths. 

Beyond George's Island the citadel- 
crowned cit}' and wharves with their 
forest of masts come into full view. A 
few moments more and the great ship is 
warped into her slip, the gang plank 
lowered, hurried good-byes are said to 
newly-made friends, and the voyager is 
at his hotel, scarcely more than twenty- 
four hours after leaving Boston. 

Nova Scotia is a land girt round about 
by the sea. No spot within its confines is 
more than thirty miles from salt water. 
Its summer climate is as soft as that of 
southern Italy in May. Its sky rivals 
that of the Riviera in the intensity of 
color tones. Its air is vitalizing, exhil- 
arative and recuperative. 

It is a country in which nature has 
been so lavish in her charms that art is 
scarcely missed at all. A region where 




' Carrying home with them at nijjht an evidence 
of the day's success " 



" The people ol Halifax are devoted to aquatic sports 
in summer time." 

each little hamlet, whether by sea or far 
back in the rugged interior, has its indi- 
vidual charms of quaint novelty, and 
where days or weeks may be idled away 
in healthful rest. 

One of the tenderest of poets has cast 
over the region "the consecration and 
purple light of his imaginings." Perhaps 
the hills will not be quite so softened in 
their lines; perhaps the mellow atmos- 
phere may be less seductive, but if we 
lo.se the charms and fascinations of the 
ideal, if the fair dreams of our imagina- 
tion are scattered in the awakening, we 
find in the reality of the present a full 
content, and need not fear the crucial 
test of personal acquaintance. 

One of the great all-pervading charms 
of Nova Scotia is its health and whole- 
someness. The people show it, and their 
manners bespeak it. The children you 
see are ruddy-faced and clumsy-limbed, 
the young men and maidens pictures of 
robust health. Malaria is a stranger. 




whose grim visage would be 
as unexpected as that of yel- 
low fever in Maine. Hay 
fever is unknown, and the 
soft summer breezes wafted 
from which way they may 
be, bring the ozone and the " "' 

inspiration of the sea, and 
temper the rays of the summer's sun. 

A noticeable peculiarity of the Prov- 
inces which strikes the man from "the 
States," is to be told that his train 
leaves at 19:26, for all railroad trains are 
run on the twenty-four hour system. 
From midnight until noon the clocks and 
the time tables behave themselves in a 
manner well known to us all, but from 




'The Micmac Indians offer for sale at the city market 
an attractive stocl< of baskets." 

noon until midnight they continue on 
from 12 to 24. instead of beginning with 
one again. This obviates the use of a. m. 
and p. m. , but is distressingly confusing 



■ive alons; the harbor side at Halifax leads to the I'ublic 
ardcns in which is the historic Martelhi Tower." 

to the new comer until he becomes .so 
familiar Avith the system that he can 
instantly recognize 23 o'clock as his old 
friend 11 p. m. 

The United States money is taken 
everywhere in the Provinces, an Arneri- 
can quarter passing current for a shilling. 
Almost every one has heard the ban 
mot accredited to ex-Senator Evarts, 
upon being told at Mt. Vernon that "Wash- 
ington was such a powerful man that he 
could throw a silver dollar almost across 
the Potomac. "Oh, yes," responded 
Evarts, "but you know a dollar would 
go farther in those days than now." It 
is a fact, however, that the dollar of the 
tourist will go farther in Nova Scotia 
and Prince Edward Island than anywhere 
else on the American continent. Board 
at hotels runs from 75 cents and a dollar 
a day in the country to $3, the highest 
charged anywhere, and this only at a 
very few hotels in the Provinces. A dol- 
lar and a half a day for transients is the 
average price at hotels, and board by the 
week varies from $3 to $10. At farm 
houses good board can be had almost 
anywhere at from $1. 50 to $5 per week. 




Nova Scotia came within fifte-en miles 
of being an island, for it is connected 
with New Brunswick by a narrow strip 
of land between Northumberland Straits 
and the Bay of Fundy, scarcely more 
than a dozen miles wide 

Geographers tell us that 
it is 2S5 miles 
long by from 
■50 to 100 miles 
broad, but in 
this small area 
is crowded a 
wealth and va- 
riety of natural attractions, which tew regions 
of similar area on the conti 
nent can match. It has 
been so cut into by the 
sea that its coast line 
measures more than a 
thousand miles, and 
is broken by a myriad 
of beautiful bays and 
natural harbors. 
Within the interior 
there are more than 
four hundred lakes, 
the largest and most fa- 
mous being the Bras d'Or 
in Cape Breton. It is the 
Loch Lomond of North 
America, a gem of nature, 
so beautiful and so picturesque that it 
challenges the admiration of even the 
greatest travellers. 

Those who have spent a vacation time 
with our neighbors to the Northeast, 
know them to be a most ho.spitable, 
warm-hearted and wholesome people, 
without affectation or greed. The nerv- 
ous activity, the ceaseless hurry and 
bustle of the United States have no place 
with them. Their characteristics are 
more like those which mark the English- 
man at home. Genial, hospitable and 
generous, they make the stranger wel- 
come within their gates. Ask a New 
Yorker on his native streets to direct you 
to a sought for place, and you will get a 
quick incisive an.swer. Ask a man in 




'The historical 



villows at (Irand Pre, the h 
may be seen from the train ' 



Halifax, 

and ten to one 

he will go with 

you, even if out of 

his way to make 

plain his willingly and 

"The ruins of the old French Fort at Annap- poHtely givCU dirCC- 

"'"' "' ■•■^" i"-«"«d" tions. In several dis- 

tricts and smaller towns throughout all 
of Nova Scotia this spirit is still more 
noticeable. The doors are ahvays open 
to the stranger, literally, as well as fig- 
uartively, for locks have little if any place 
in builders' hardware, and if put on a 
door at all, are there more from custom 
than for use. 

Such a thing as a burglary would, it 
is safe to say, be considered a most un- 
usual occurrence, for crime does not 
seem to thrive well in this climate. A 
writer, conmientingon this subject, spoke 
of having recently visited the jail in Hal- 
ifax, and states that there was just one 
prisoner confined there. And this in a 
city of 45,000 inhabitants. 

Those who wish definite information 
as to the length of their tour 
may put down Halifax as being 
378 miles from Boston, 340 miles 
from Portland and 542 miles 
from New York by sea. But 
this is, as children say, cutting 
the corner, for if one goes by 
rail it is 618 miles from Portland, 
720 from Boston and 939 from 
New York. 

One would as soon think of 
going to England and not visit- 
ing London, as of going to Nova 
Scotia and not making Halifax 



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' There still remain occasional relics of the wars between the 
Uritish and French." 

the central point of his tour. It is the 
commercial, social and tourist center of 
the Provinces. It is the port easiest 
reached from the United States, and 
the most convenient place from which 
to start on your inland tour. The rail- 
roads of Nova Scotia may touch and stop 
at other places, but they all bes-in at 
Halifax. 

Halifax may be justly termed the 
_ British strong- 
hold of North 
America. It is 
not only the 
headquarters of 
a larger number 
of British troops 
than are quar- 
tered at any 
other place in 
North America, 
but it is the prin- 
cipal naval sta- 
tion and rendez- 
vous of the 
British North 
Atlantic and 
We st Indies 
squadrons. 
Halifax is Eng- 
lish in architec- 
'"'■^"■•- ture, manners 
and custt)nis; and the visitor will have no 
opportunity to forget for any ten minutes 
at a time that he is practical!}' as faraway 
from " the States" and their customs and 
mannerisms as if he was in Southamp- 
ton or Liverpool. The presence of the 
arm 3' and navy officers adds an interesting 
feature to its social life. That it is dis- 
tinctly brilliant is not to be wondered at 
when one realizes that it is the seat of the 
Provincial parliament, has a university 
and fine cathedral, a governor, lieu- 
tenant governor, a commander-in-chief 
of the army, an admiral of the navy, an 
archbishop and bishop as residents. It 
is the London and Paris of the Maritime' 
Provinces ; the commercial center, and 
the dominating financial city of the Eng- 
lish-American colonies. The city stands 
on a succession of hills, occupying a penin- 
sula four and one-half miles long, with a 
breadth varying from a half to two or 




more miles, and crowning its highest 
bill is the great citadel, of which so 
much has, and so much will in future, 
be written. Halifax is ten miles back 
from the ocean proper, its harbor 
and location being not unlike that 
of New York. On one side it is 
bounded by the Northwest Arm and 
a wide stretch of isolated water, and 
on the other by the harbor, which is 
accessible at all sea.sons, and is suffi- 
ciently large to permit the entire English 
navy to manoeuvre upon its waters 
with ease. 

The citadel occupies the broad sum- 
mit of a central hill, two hundred and 
fifty feet above the harbor level. It acts as 
a stern and watchful sentinel, keeping un- 
ceasing guard over its peaceful charge. 
Great cannon poke their noses out 
threateningly from under its casements, 
and absolutely control the approach to 
the city from any direction. The Duke 
of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, who 
was in his time commander of the forces 
at Halifax, built the original fortress, 





land about Grand Pre.' 




"T%Mcec\er\ t\ cnt> 1 i hours the tide leaves 
the ships high and drj-." 

utilizing the labor of the army of Maroons 
who had been conquered by the British, 
banished from Jamaica and subsequently 
deported to Sierra Leone. It is sur- 
rounded by a deep moat and the huge 
stone walls and embankments look as if 
they would be absolutely impregnable to 
any attack. Within these walls are the 
bomb-proof baiTacks. The view is more 
extended from the citadel than from any 
other spot near Halifax. 
You may overlook the en- 
tire city with its mag- 
nificent harbor teeming 
with shipping. You 
can plainly see Dart- 
mouth on the oppo- 
site side, the wide- 
spreading Bedford 
Basin, or inner har- 
bor, flecked with the 
graceful sails of 
pleasure craft. Fort 
Clarence, below 
Dartmouth, with its 
sombre casements, is in 
full view, as are Mac- 
nabs and Georges Islands, 
the famous York Redoubt, 
the outer harbor with its 
fortified points and far over toward the 
horizon the blue Atlantic. 

Outside of the citadel and adjoining it 
upon the city's streets are many barracks 
for officers and married men, 
the military ho.spital, which cost 
over half a million dollars, and 
the garrison chapel, where the 
staff and troops attend service 
in full uniform, accompanied by 
the citadel band. To the west 
of the fortress stretches the com- 
mon, a wide expanse of velvety 
lawns covering many acres, 
upon which the great regimental 
parades and sham battles, always 
such interesting spectacles to 
visitors, take place. 




'Where Indians camp.' 



Halifax has been called the Gibraltar 
of North America, and while it bears no 
resemblance from a topographical stand- 
point to that "gateway of the conti- 
nents" on the opposite side of the Atlan- 
tic, it would almost as stubbornly refuse 
capture. But aside from its military 
and naval features Halifax has many 
points worthy the visitor's considera- 
tion. Several of her churches, of which 
there are more than forty, are histori- 
cal, and will repay a visit. St. Paul's, 
begun in 1750 and enlarged in 1S12, is 
rich in mural tablets, and many of Nova 
Scotia's famous men sleep the long .sleep 
under the shelter of its protecting walls. 
It is said the frame of this church was 
brought from Massachusetts in 1 740, and 
it has had but five rectors in the century 
and a half since then. The "Little 
Dutch Church," built in 1755, and whose 
original size and architecture have never 
been altered, is still in good repair, and 
the seeker after quaint epitaphs can find 
many curious ones in the moss grown old 
cemetery surrounding it. 

The official buildings of the Province 
are architectually striking, and bespeak 
solidity. The Dominion Building, the 
corner-stone of which Avas laid in 181 1, 
was up to 1S30 the finest structiu'e on the 
North American continent. It is still the 
admiration of architects and its great 
halls are beautiful in decoration and im- 
posing in size. Within this building are 
located the Customs and Post-Office de- 
partments, and Provincial Museum. The 
new City Hall and the Government 
House, occupied by the Governor, are im- 
posing and conspicuous official buildings. 

Dalhousie College, a handsome and 
pretentious modern structure, richly en- 
dowed and well equipped, is the most 
prominent of the educational institutions 
of Halifax. 

The visitor whose time will permit 
should surely visit the great dry dock 
and the naval yard. Both are instruc- 
tive, particularly the former- which is 





' lis roclcy coast has stood the poundini^s of tlie surf since 
the world was young." 



one of the largest in the world, being of 
solid granite and concrete, 613 feet long, 
102 feet wide at the top and 70 feet at 
the bottom. It is larely unoccupied, and 
there is almost always some mighty ship 
of war braced up within it receiving an 
overhauling. 

Aside from her military and naval 
features Halifax is most proud of her 
public gardens, and the park at Point 
Pleasant. And well she may be, for no 
other city of her population on this side 
of the Atlantic can boast of handsomer 
attractions. The gardens, containing 
fourteen acres, are admitted to be as 
beautiful as any in America. They are a 
gem in emerald, and one may wander 
about their well-kept walks, lounge under 
the graceful arbors, linger at the side of 
the crystal fountains or mirror-like ponds, 
feast his eyes on the graceful marble 
statuary, drink in 



' The waters of the sea creep far inland through grassy meadows, 
and add a pleasure and variety to the landscape." 

the intoxicating fragrance of the flow- 
ers, and forget for the nonce that 
there is anything but the beautiful 
and poetic in this world of ours. Here 
on Saturday afternoons during the sum- 
mer will be found a gathering of the rep- 
resentative people of Halifax, listening to 
the sweet music of one of the military 
bands. The park at Point Pleasant, 
with its many miles of woodland, driv- 
ing roads and bridle paths, twisting and 
twining with serpentine graces in and 
out through forests of spruce and pine, 
is one of the most charming spots on the 
continent. It seems to the visitor as if 
nature had conspired to crowd into this 
" neck o' woods" a lavish assortment of 
her brightest jewels; as if she had re- 
served it for a store house of her most 
fascinating combinations of trees and 
wild flowers, rocks and beach. In this 
natural park you may lose yourself in the 
heart of the primeval forest, or you may 





sit on the 
of the bluff 
at the 
ocean 



side and watch the 
mighty Atlantic 
roll into the broad 
mouth of Che- 
bucto Bay, the 
surf pounding 
upon the beach 
far below you, as 
if impetuous at 
being stopped 
in its watery 
race. You 
may sit for 
hours breathing 
the delicious com 
bination of the 
perfumes of the 
resinous pines 

and that of the sea, and gaze i:pon the 
ceaseless coming and going of ocean craft. 
Over back from the sea, in the heart of 
the park, you may visit the legend- 
enshrined Martello Tower, a memorial 
(if days when "rough-handed maraud- 
' 1 s hung about the shores, and skulking 
dians peered out from the surround- 
mg greenery." 

The visitor at Halifax can spend 

several days delightfully in driving or 

bicycling about the suburbs. Among 

the popular roads is that along the 

ever-attractive Bedford 

sparkling waters form 

about five miles 

inner harbor, as 

hemmed in on 

bold and pre- 

Along their 

crowding in 



';?'**''• 



Rocky fortresses of nature's 
fashioning." 



shores of the 
Basin, whose 
almost a circle 
across. This 
it is called, is 
all sides by 
tentious hills, 
base and 




'Sailing is a popular pastime at HalifaN." 



many places closely between 
the bluffs and the murmuring 
waves of the Basin, and at 
others following the outer lines 
of some picturesque inlet, is one 
of the finest roads in Nova Sco- 
tia. To bicyclists it affords 
a glorious opportunity for a 
spin along the very edge of the 
water, across which come the 
softest and most invigorating of 
sea-tempered breezes. This 
road leads to what is known as 
" The Dingle," three miles from 
town and near Dutch Village, 
a spot of fairy loveliness. To 
quo'te from Prof. C. D. G. Rob- "Ti' 

erts: "Beyond 'The Dingle,' 
on the Margaret's Bay Road, is the 
famous 'Rocking Stone,' a mass of 
granite, i6o tons in weight, so nicely 
poised on a base of some twelve by six 





■ La Have river has frequently been referred to by writers as 
Rhine of North America." 

niches, that it may be swayed by a child 
using a stick as a lever. In this same 
direction lie the Chain Lakes, whence 
Halifa.K gets her water supply, and where, 
in spite of prohibitory enactments, many 
fine trout are caught. Another favorite 
drive is to Bedford, along the Basin, 
passing Rockingham and the site of the 
' Prince's Lodge,' where Prince Edward 
had his dwelling one hundred years ago. 
The Lodge, with its memories of love, 
and statecraft, and regal ceremony has 
fallen before the siege of time ; but the 
band rotunda stands, a quaint, semi- 
classic structure, overhanging a railway 
cutting. Then one should visit Dart- 
mouth, across the harbor from Halifax, so 
picturesquely dropped among its dark 
hills. Ferry-boats run every quarter hour 



:re are large lumber interests at Bridgevvater on the picturesque 
La Have river." 

between the places. The town has some 
6,000 inhabitants, a sugar refinery, a ma- 
rine railway, a rope-walk, a skate factory, 
and — by no means least imposing feature 
— the great grim pile of Mount 
Hope Lunatic Asylum. 

Back of Dartmouth, to the 
north, lies the beautiful chain of 
the Dartmouth Lakes, a famous 
resort of skaters, when the ice 
has set firmly. From these lakes 
runs the old Shubenacadie Canal, 
connecting the waters of the At- 
lantic with those of Minas Basin 
and Fundy, by way of the Shu- 
benacadie River. Four miles 
north of Dartmouth are the Mon- 
tague gold mines, well worth a 
visit. Along the coast south-east- 
ward, a distance of seven miles, 
is Cow Bay, a summer resort 
famous for its noble beach and 
splendid surf. The whole country 
around Halifax and Dartmouth is 
a network of lakes and streams, 
including some of the best fishing 
waters of the Province ; and there is ex- 
cellent cock, partridge, plover and duck 
shooting within easy reach." 

Halifax, while one of the most sedate 
cities on the surface, is in re- 
ality one in which the spirit of 
honest sport and wholesome 
pleasure holds full sway. It 
has two fine social clubs, th'j 
Halifax and the City, 
whose memberships 
are made up of rep- 
resentative citizens. 
Its Royal Nova Sco- 
tia Yacht Club oc- 
cupies a handsome 
and modern build- 
ing of its own on 
the harbor side at 

/ 





the foot of Hollis 
Street. 

In summer all 
Halifax rides 
and drives, sails 
and rows. I n 
winter it devotes 
itself to those 
sports which put 
roses in the 
cheeks of her 
women and vigor 
and health in her 
men. 

One of the side 
trips w li i c h 
should be taken 
from Halifax if time will permit, is that 
by steamer along the coast to Lunen- 
burg and Bridgewater, the latter town 
being at the head of navigation on the 
river La Have, the Rhine of Nova 
Scotia, A pleasant way to enjoy the 
scenery along this beautiful stream 
is to go up in the steamer /' and to 
drive down on the river's bank / f r n m 
Bridgewater tor 
the old French : 
sett lement La 
Have, where the 
stream merges 
with the Atlan- 
tic. If the visitor 



Lunenburg.is one of the most prosper- 
ous places in the province, being largely 
interested in shipping and fishing enter- 
prises. Near it is located a "^ curious 
natural phenomenon known as the Ovens. 
These are several large caverns worn out 
by the tide, three of which are 70 feet 
wide and over 200 feet deep. The sea 
dashes into these dark recesses during a 
heav}' swell, making a tremendous roar 
broken by deep booming reverberations. 



ipinp is one of the deliylits 
of Nova Scotia life." 





" The salmon is kinc; of the finny tribe and is found 
in many of the Nova Scotia streams." 

is a fisherman the yarns he will hear in 
Bridgewater of rod and reel will set his 
brain in a whirl. ' ' Six twenty-five pound 
salmon killed in a day on one rod." 
' ' Five hundred brook trout taken on 
two rods in two days," etc., give a fair 
idea of what he may expect. They are 
repeated here simply because to be fore- 
warned is to be forearmed, and not be- 
cause they are in any way extravagant. 



These are en- 
shrouded in local 
superstition and 
legend, and many 
a hair-raising tale 
of ghosts and pi- 
"" V'""" rates are spun 

around the old- 
fashioned fire-places of 
the locality. 
There are three routes from Halifax 
■ diich lead to interesting portions of 
Nova Scotia. One is via Windsor to 
Kentville, Wolfville and "The Land of 
Evangeline," another is by way of Truro 
to New Glasgow and thence on to Cape 
Breton, while a third is to Moncton and 
Shediac, from which a steamer makes 
daily t-rips across Northumberland Straits 
to ^5^ Summerside, a thriving city 




on Prince Edward Island, second 
only to Charlottetown in importance. 
Those who wish to visit the land 
made famous by Longfellow in his 
" Evangeline," can take a handsome 
and rapid train called the "Flying 
Bluenose," leaving Halifax every 
morning. The route for the first few 
miles out of Halifax is exceedingly 
attractive, with its many views of 
Bedford Basin, but after the last 
glimpse has been had of this ever- 
beautiful sheet, there is nothing to 
interest the traveler until Windsor 
is reached It is a dreary stretch 
of rocks and stunted pines, with here 
and there a pond hemmed in by un- 
inviting shores. Windsor makes a 
claim of being the prettiest town 
in Nova Scotia. It has 3,500 inhabi- 
tants, a pretentious college, and was 
the home of the genial and witty 
Haliburton, author of "Sam Slick, 
The Clockmaker," etc. 

The town occupies a promontory 
between the Avon' and St. Croix 
rivers. It is a considerable commer- 
cial center, and from here vast 
quantities of plaster are shipped. 
The Avon River, which is in reality 
an arm of the Bay of Minas (itself a 
part of the greater Bay of Fundy), 
cuts up strange pranks because of the 
tremendous tides. Twice every 
twenty-four hours the water all runs out 
of the wide river, leaving ships high and 
dry on the mud, and twice it flows back 
again to such a depth that the largest 
vessels can sail anywhere over its swift 
running surface. This is the stream 
which led Charles Dudley Warner to 
exclaim: " I never knew how much water 
added to a river until I saw the Avon." 

Here, as at most of the ports on the Bay 
of Fundy and its estuaries, the ships have 





'There are many spots where one could pitcli his tent amid 
beautiful patches of woodland." 

to watch their chance and slip up to their 
moorings on the rush of the incoming 
tide, for when it turns it goes out like a 
whirlwind, and vessels are left dry to the 
keel, cradled in the ooze, Avhile far above 
their decks is the dripping wharf. In 
many places, as at Digby, where there is 
a depth of water sufficient to allow boats 
to reach the dock at all hours, the wharfs 
are built double, one far below the other 
for use at low tide. It is a strange and 
novel sight to those unaccus- 
tomed to it, to stand on the 
deck of a steamer and see 
' the upper wharf above the top 
/^ of the smokestacks, while peo- 
ple are coming aboard or 
leaving the steamer over tne 
slimv, barncle encrusted lower 
wharf, which was an hour or 
so ago thirty feet under water. 
Westward from Windsor 
the country takes on a diff- 
erent character. Barren rocky 
slopes have given away to 
fertile fields. The hills have 
drawn apart and the Gas- 
pereau Valley spreads out 
its verdure-covered meadows 
and luxuriously-f ol iaged 



' The hills have d 



vn apart and the Gaspe 
verdure-co\ered .-ueadows 



Valley spreads out 



orchards on every hand. Over to the 
right sparkles the Bay of Minas, and 
outlined on the horizon is grand old 
Blomidon, that majestic bastion, keeping- 
faithful sentinel as in the days of Evan- 
geline, over the turbulent waters which 
rise and fall with mighty force at its 
rocky base, 
guarding 





places in Nova Scotia which r 
England in their rural beauty 



the peaceful 
valley from the 
cold north 
Avinds and sea 
fogs w h i c li 
hover on its 
frowning sum- 
mit, as if afraid 
to trespass fur- 
ther on the fair 
lands below. 

And here lies 
Grand Pre, the 
home of the 
Acadians, the spot where was written 
one of the saddest and most romantic 
pages in the history of North America. 
Early in the seventeenth century, there 
came from France a goodly company of 
immigrants, and settled here. Dikes, 
with which the tides were kept from the 
meadows were built, and great crops 
gathered upon the reclaimed land 
Prosperity came and gentle peace 
spread wide its protecting wings 
over these faithful people. The 
Indians loved them and were be- 
loved in turn. Little heed paid 
they to aught about them save 
their daily toil. For it was a fair 
prospect that stretched away from 
their thatched cottages. Through the 
winding ways of the marshes the hurry- 
ing tides of Minas rushed back and forth, 
while their cattle waxed fat, their 
crops grew heavy, and the days came 
and went in happy uneventfulness. 

When France and Great Britain went 
to war, the Acadians being inten.se Roman 
Catholics, considered it a crusade, and 
fought valiantly for the cause of their 
native land. Then came the ceding of 
Nova Scotia to the British, and soon 
after the demand upon these simple- 
hearted people that they should take the 



oath of allegiance to the British crown. 
They rebelled and showed hostility. 
The English settlers, who hungered after 
these fairest lands in all the province, 
fretted because they were held by an 
alien people. Yet the Acadians sowed 
and reaped, inimindful of everything 
save their loyalty to their God and their 
native land. 

" Thus dwelt together in love these simple 

Acadian farmers, 
Dwelt in the love ot God and man. Alike were 

they free from 
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy the 

vice of republics. 
So passed the morning away. And lo, with a 

summons sonorous, 
Sounded the bell from its towers, and over the 

meadows a drum beat." 

For the British 
Council at Halifax had 
decided that these 
kindly people must 
either take the oath 
of allegiance to Great 
Britain or be deported 
from the countrj-. 

Almost ttnanimous- 
ly they refused to take 
the oath, preferring ex- 
ile and confiscation to 
such an act, and seem- 
ing to regard their 
neutrality of the past 
forty-five years as hav- 
ing become a vested right. Diplomacy 
and argument were tried in vain, and it 
was resolved that the whole Acadian peo- 
ple should be banished to the sotithern 
American colonies, and that their estates 
and buildings, cattle and vessels, should 
be declared forfeit- 
ed to the crown. 




" Quiet ba>- 



lal basins along the 



"Thronged ere long was the church with men. 

Without, in the churchvard, 
Waited the women. They stood by the graves, 

and hung on the headstones 
Garlands of autumn-leaves and evergreens 

fresh from the forest. 
Then came the guard from the ships, and 

marching proudly among them 
Entered the sacred portal. With loud and dis- 
sonant clangor 
Echoed the sound of their brazen drums from 

ceiling and casement, — 
Echoed a moment only, and slowly the pon- 
derous portal 
Closed, and in silence the crowd awaited the 

will of the soldiers. 
Then up rose their commander, and spake 

from the steps of the altar. 
Holding aloft in his hands, with its seals, the 

royal commission. 
'Ye are convened this day,' he said, 'by his 

Majesty's orders. 
Clement and kind has he been ; but how have 

you answered his kindness? 
Let your own hearts reply ! To my natural 

niake and my temper 
Painful the task is I do, which to you I know 

must be grievious. 
Yet must I bow and obey, and deliver the will 

of our monarch ; 
Namely, that all your lands, and dwellings, and 

cattle of all kinds 
Forfeited be to the crown ; and that you your- 
selves from this province 
Be transported to other lands. God grant you 

may dwell there 
Ever as faithful subjects, a happy and peace- 
able people ! 
Prisoners now I declare you, for such is his 

Majesty's pleasure.' 
There disorder prevailed, and the tumult and 

stir of embarking. 
Busily plied the freighted boats ; and in the 

confusion 
Wives were torn from their husbands, and 

mothers, too late, saw their children 
Left on the land, extending their arms, with 

wildest entreaties. 
Suddenly rose from the south a light, as in 

autumn the blood-red 
Moon climbs the crystal walls of heaven, and 

o'er the horizon 
Titan-like stretches its hundred hands upon 

mountain and meadow. 
Seizing the rocks and the rivers, and piling 

huge shadows together. 
Broader and ever broader it gleamed on the 

roofs of the village. 
Gleamed on the sky and the sea, and the ships 

that lay in the roadstead 
Columns of shining smoke uprose, and flashes 

of flame were 
Thrust through their folds and withdrawn, like 

the quivermg hands of a martyr. 





Where plunging waterfalls sing their rippling 
son<;s to the trees and rocks." 

Then as the winds seized the gleeds and the 

burning thatch, and uplifting. 
Whirled them aloft through the air, at once 

from a hundred house-tops 
Started the sheeted smoke, with flashes of flame 

intermingled. 

Many a weary year had passed since the burn- 
ing of Grand Pre, 
When on the falling tide the freighted vessels 

departed. 
Bearing a nation, with all its household gods, 

into exile, 
Exile without an end, and without an example 

in story. 
Far asunder, on separate coasts, the Acadians 

landed ; 
Scattered were they, like flakes of snow, when 

the wind from the northeast 
Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the 

Banks of Newfoundland. 
Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered 

from city to city. 
From the cold lakes of the North to sultry 

Southern savannas, — 
From the bleak shores of the sea to the lands 

where the Father of Waters 
Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them 

down to the ocean, 
Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones 

of the mammoth. 
Friends they sought and homes ; and many, 

despairing, heart-broken. 
Asked of the earth but a grave, and no longer 

a friend or a fireside. 
Written their history stands on tablets of stone 

in the churchyards." 

Longfellow's Evang-cluie. 



'Following their peaceful avocations 




elic of the gene 
gone. 



"AH history pre- 
sents no parallel to 
the spectacle of the 
deportation of the 
Acadians. Nations 
have been put to 
the sword, and peo- 
ples not engaged 
i n war-fare have 
been massacred. 
In our own century 
the ineffable Turk 
descended upon a 
peaceful commun- 
ity during the Gre- 
cian war, and wiped 
it from the face of the earth. The same 
power is now fiendishly at work, while 
the civilized world looks on, to 
blot out from existence the Ar- 
menians. But never was a nation 
rooted out of the soil and ruth- 
lessly scattered to the four quar- 
ters of the earth in a brief space, 
as were the French inhabitants of 
Nova Scotia. It is strange that 
so fruitful a theme for the poet 
and novelist has been so little 
made use of. Longfellow, alone, 
has immortalized it in his epic, in 
which, however, while the facts 
may be idealized, they do not de- 
part in substance from the truth." 
The railroad running from 
Grand Pre westward takes tin. 
traveller through the Cornwallis, 
Gaspereau and Annapolis valleys, 
in turns. Each is a beautiful re- 
gion, dotted with prosperous farms, great 
orchards and here and there delightful 
villages, in which the summer tourist 
will find plain, wholesome inns and the 
choice of many private homes, which 
are thrown open to summer boarders. 
Wolfville and Kentville are most desir- 
able points at which to spend a day or a 



summer. The roads round about are ex- 
cellent, and as the price of horse hire in 
this country, as everything else, is ex- 
ceedingly cheap, it is easily possible for 
the tourist, making these places a center, 
to visit all the region round about, includ- 
ing several pretty resorts on the Bay of 
Fundy shore. 

Kentville is a charming little leaf-em- 
bowered and elm-shaded village tucked 
in between the hills. Prof. Richards 
paints this pretty pen picture of this 
quaint and quiet little town: 

"The valleys wind unexpectedly, and 
the enclosing banks are abrupt. The 
tidal stream of the Cornwallis, twisting 
through its narrow strip of meadow, is 
met here by a chattering amber bronk 





' In the heart of the primeval forest where the camps of the 
hunters are established." 

set thick with willows. The brook washes 
the dooryards. There are unexpected 
bridges, and green shade dapples the 
streets. Every turn gives a new and 
haunting picture, and one feels as if the 
place had been planned in a dream. The 
air is wholesome, especially kindly to the 
weak lungs or throat. The streets, wind- 
less though shady, are warm in 
' summer ; but it is only a step to 
climb the surrounding bluffs and 
come out into the breezes and 
wide views of Cornwallis. The 
view from Canaan Heights, sev- 
eral miles back of the town, is one 
not to be forgotten. Kentville 
has a charming social life, many 
families of culture having settled 
in the neighborhood. It has also 
an extensive business as the cap- 
ital and trading centre of the rich 
county of Kings. It is the seat 
of the offices and machine-shops 
of the Dominion Atlantic Rail- 
way. It has an excellent new 
hotel close to the station, the 







Aberdeen, large, 
comfortable, and 
modern in equip- 
ment ; and small- 
er hotels, with 
good accommo- 
dation, are 
numerous. 

• ' The Corn- 
wallis Valley 
Railwa)"- 
is a short 
branch of ■' 
the Do- 
minion 
Atlantic, 
running from 
Kentville thro' 
Canning and 
the heart of the apple coun- 
try, the greatest and most 
famous of all those in North 
America, to Kingsport, a dis- 
tance of fourteen miles. Can- 
ning (eleven miles from Kent- 
ville) is a typical farming 
town, surrounded by rich 
meadows, its placid streets 
buried in leafage. Its comfortable inn 
is quaint and old-fashioned. Through 
Canning i^ows a narrow tidal stream, the 
Habitant, once a large river, but now 
almost silted full. The heavy crops of 
clover and timothy now wave where of 
old large ships came in upon the flood 
to Canning's 
wharves. 

" From 

Canning it is 

but a short 

drive across 

♦ the Pereau 

, ^.-^^-~^m ^ 'JI(^f', to the foot of 

North Moun- 
t a i n and 
ihe famous 
Look- Off. 
This latter 



The 



journey along the shores of ihe Bay of Minas and in and out 
of the many bays." 

is a lofty spur of the main range. As the 
carriage crawls slowly up its steep face 
a series of enchanting pictures is unfolded 
below. The panorama seen from the 
summit is marvelous, not only for its 
sublime breadth but for the variety of its 
loveliness. The local enthusiast will tell 
j-ou that you are gazing into five counties 
—Kings, Annapolis, Hants, Cumberland, 
and Colchester — but this fact is a very 
insignificant item in the impressiveness 
of the scene. From your feet the moun- 
tain side falls away abruptly, a mass of 
foliage palpitating with colored light. 
Far down, as if you could drop a pebble 
into it, lie the basking roofs of Pereau, 
drenched with sun." 

Kingsport, the terminus of the branch 
from Kentville, is one of the leading ship- 
building centres on the north Atlantic, 



Micmac Indians are at hi 
in canoes." 



and a prominent port for ocean 
steamers in the apple and potato 
trade. It lies on the western 
shore of the Basin of Minas, and 
puts up quite pretentious 
claims as a summer re- 
sort. It is one of the 
spots in Nova Scotia whit ' 
the tourist should not o\ • 
look, for it has an invigoru- 
ing climate and exhilarating , 
outlook, good bathing and 
several comfortable inns. 
Then, too, it is the starting point ot one 
of the most delightful side trips in the 
Province — that upon the twin screw 
steamer " Evangeline," whose captain is 
a uniformed yet genial encyclopaedia of 
all the traditions of the fabled shores 
around which his staunch craft 
plies. The steamer hugs 
close to the land Inie pass- 
ing under the frow n- 
ing heights of Cape 
Blomidon, whose up- 
per portion is one sheer 
perpendicular wall of 
rock, while the lower 
half is a slope of dizzy- 
ing steepness. In the 
storm eaten crevices of 
the red sandstone, cling 
the birches and other 
trees which conceal, by 
a ragged carpet of foli- 
age, the sterner fea- s" 
tures of Blomidon's 
rocky face. After pass- ' 
ing Amethyst Cove, 
where, in the early 
spring, many beautiful specimens of 
this lilac crystal are brought down 
by the thawing of the ice in the rocky 
fis.sures. Spit Rock, old Blomidon's 
rival, is seen standing in bold relief 
against the sky, with the huge sliver torn 
away from the parent rock by 
some stupendous convulsion, 
standing alone 
and apart from it 
like a solitary 
sentinel. 
The en- 
tire trip 
of the 





"The Post-Office, Dominion Hiiilding and 
Go\ernor's Mansion at Cliarlottetown." 

"Evangeline" across the Basin to Parrs- 
boro, on the Cumberland shore, is intense- 
ly interesting. The village of Parrsboro 
is a brisk town and the centre of a fine 
fishing and shooting region. The Cum- 
berland peninsula is famous for moose, 
and the surrounding streams are literall}- 
alive with trout and salmon, and have 
been but little fished as yet. 

From Parrsboro the traveler, if he 
does not wish to retrace his steps, may 
take the Ct:mberland Railroad to 
Springfield Junction and return to 
Halifax by the Intercolonial Railway 
in about four hours, or he may go to 
Point Shediac via Moncton, from which 
place he can cross the Northumberland 
Straits to Summer side, Prince Edward 



"Both the residence and business portion of Charlottetown 
lias a prosperous look." 




Island. Still another route 
suggested is by the Intercol- 
onial Railway to Truro, con- 
necting there for Cape Breton, 
the island which forms the east- 
ern portion of Nova Scotia, and 
is, from any point of considera- 
tion, one ofthe most interesting 
and beautiful regions on the 
American continent. 

Sportsmen tell prodigious stories of 
the fishing and shooting in the Maritime 
Provinces, and they are not overdrawn, 
for no country offers greater attractions, 
where in the still solitude of the forests 
nature has provided a home and a hiding 
place for game and fish. 

Nova Scotia trout and salmon waters 
are at their best in May and June. Fol- 
lowing the salmon come the sea trout 
late in June and through July, then the 
great lusty, silver and vermillion fish, 
all full of game and all frequent- 
ing both salt and fresh waters. 
There is usually good trout fish- 
ing in most waters in September, . 
and during the same month there 
is the fall run of sea trout. 
The slack month for fly fishing 
is August. 

The brook trout is to be met 
with in every lake, or even pond, 
throughout the provinces. One 
cannot walk far through the 
depths of a forest without hear- 
ing the gurgling of a rill of water 
amongst the stones beneath the 
moss. Follow this hidden stream 
a little ways and you will soon 
come upon a sparkling brook 
fringed by waving ferns and 
varied by crystal pools in which 
is mirrowed the overhanging 
foliage. The trout is sure to be 
here, and on your approach darts 
under the shelter of the project- 
ing roots of the mossy bank. A little 
further, and a winding 'lane of still water, 
skirted by graceful maples and birches, 
leads to the open expanse of the lake, 
where the gloom of the heavy woods is 
exchanged for clear daylight. This is 
the "run in" as it is called, and here 
the lake trout will always be found, 
ready for the bait at all times of 
year. A creel of two or three 
dozen of these speckled beau- 
is certain to be your re- 
w-ard for having found 
rour way to these wild 
but enchanting 
'^pots. Frequently 
five dozen hand- 
s o m e trout, 




weighing froin 
one to three pounds apiece 
have been taken in a single 
hour in some of the fa- 
vorite Nova Scotia 
streams. 

The sea trout 
closely resembles its 
brother of the brook 
in shape and color. 
The size attained by this 
fi.sh along the coast varies 
from three to five pounds. 
The favorite localities are the 
harbors with which the coast is indented. 
When hooked by the fly fisherman on their 
first entrance to fresh water, they afiiord 
sportsecondonlyto that of salmon fishing. 
No more beautiful fish ever reposed in an 



h 



'The caribou. 





angler's- basket. They are of delicious 
flavor, and are entitled to a high consid- 
eration and place among the game fish 
of the provinces. 

Excellent camping grounds may be 
found upon or near by the streams and 
lakes, and Indian guides who are adept 
at camp keeping and canoeing, and who 
are familiar with the locations of the best 
pools, can readily be secured in all lo- 
calities. They generally live during the 
summer at the mouths of the rivers, and 
are alert at making bargains to accom- 
pany sporting parties. 

As a rule all sportsmen's supplies may 
be purchased to good advantage in 
Halifax, but in any case it is best to 
get flies in Nova Scotia, where the local 




requirements 
are w e 1 1 ^ 
known, the 
B 1 u e n o s e s 
being born fisher- 
men. Guides usvi- 
ally charge $i a day, 
or $1.50 to $2 with boat, andean 
be secured in any town, while 
dealers in tackle are always well 
informed as to localities and 
ready to impart information. 

From Halifax fishing trips 
may be taken either by the several coach 
lines along the coast, or by private con- 
veyances, which are to be obtained -at 
reasonable cost. There is good sport 
along the western shore all the way to 
Chester and Gold 
River. Indian 
River, twenty- 
one miles from 
Halifax and In- 
gram River 
I w e n t y - fi V e 
miles, are also 
good points, as 
IS Grand Lake. 
At St. Margaret's 
B a y m ay be 
found an old- 
fashioned i n n 
and good guides. 
Indian Lake, 
about eight 
miles from Hali- 
fax on the Pros- 
pect Road, Pet- 
ers Lake, Spruce 
Hill Lake and 
Nine Mile River 
are good points for the spring and sum- 
mer sport. 

It is impossible, in an article of this 
length, to give a list of all the favorite 
places for sport, but this information can 
readily be secured in Halifax or any of 
the larger or smaller towns. No refer- 
ence to fishing in the Provinces would, 
however, be complete without a mention 
of that most famous of all salmon waters, 
the Margaree Ri^rer in Cape Breton. 
This is easily reached from Baddeck, and 
runs through a country so beauti- 
ful, that should the sportsman 
fail to get a single rise, he would 
be abundantly repaid for the trip. 
The laws regulating fishing fix 
the open season for salmon from 
March i to August 15, although, 
they may be fished for with a fly a 
month earlier, that is from Feb- 
ruary:. No one is allowed to fish 
for salmon between 6 p. m. Satur- 



// 




V'day and 6 a. m. 
' Monday, or for 
any other fi.sh in 
waters frequent- 
ed by salmon. 
The penalty for violation is $30. 
vSpeckled trout may be fished 
for from April i to October i, 
and bass at any time with hook 
and line. Non-residents upon 
arrival in the provinces are re- 
quired to pay duty upon their rods 
oose." and tackle, but a receipt is given 
by the customs officials, and the amount 
returned when the fisherman leaves the 
country. 

Shooting in Nova Scotia does not com- 
mence until September 15th, moose, car- 
ibou and deer being protected for the 
nine months preceding that date. The 
chief ambition of the sportsman who visits 
Nova Scotia is to kill a moose, the male 
of which specie s is frecjuently eight feet 
high, weighs fifteen hundred pounds, has 
horns measuring from five to six feet from 
tip to tip and as much fight in him, 
when wounded, as a Rocky Mountain 
grizzly bear. In September and October 
moose are often surprised and killed while 
wading in the cool waters of inland lakes, 
where they feed on the roots and stems 
of aquatic plants. Like the red deer, 
the moose "yard" in winter, the "yard" 
consisting of a cedar or spiiice swamp, 
round or through which theymake beaten 
tracks in their rambling. A yard will 
sometimes be found by hunters contain- 
ing forty or fifty animals. After a fresh 
fall of snow, hunters on snow-shoes can 
easily overtake the moose, whose great 
weight causes him to sink in the snow, 
but this is a kind of hunting looked down 
upon by the true knight of the gun, and 
not con.sidered sportsmanlike. Indian and 
half- 
breed 
guides 




'Watchini; for moose from the camp." 





' Prince Edward Island is a quiet rej^ion, in which, if linie is 
money, every man is a millionaire." 

frequently attract moose by imitating 
their cry, the animals coming cautiously 
towards the sound. A repeating rifle of 
heavy calibre is a necessity in moose 
hunting, for a wounded bull moose will 
invariably turn on his assailant. No 
hunter can do better than make his first 
essay at moose shooting in Nova Scotia. 
There are in this province three recog- 
nized sporting districts, of which the 
best is probably the western, which takes 
in all the country to the west of a line 
drawn from Halifax to Yarmouth. Here 
moose are reported plentiful and increas- 
ing in number. No one is allowed to kill 
more than two moose or four caribou in 
one season, the penalty for violating this 
law being from $50 to $200, and is rigidly 
enforced. 

Caribou, or American reindeer, are 
abundant in Nova Scotia and in parts of 
Prince Edward Island. They are not 
as large as the moose, rarely weighing- 
more than 500 pounds, and are a less 
dangerous foe when wounded. They are 



if 



light-colored, 
almost white in certain sea- 
sons, and have broad horns 
of the elk pattern, with a 
peculiar formation which fol- 
lows the bridge of the nose 
almost to its tip, perfectly 
protecting it from the attacks 
of its fellows. The common 
red deer of the States are seldom, 
ever, found in Nova Scotia. 
Good bird shooting may be 
obtained in almost every part of i 
Nova Scotia. Duck and snipe l 
abound, and English pheasants 
that have lately been imported 
are said to stand the winter well 
and to be increasing rapidly. In 
many sections capital sport may 
be had with ruffed grouse, wood- 
cock, snipe, quail, plover, ducks I 
and geese, are so plentiful that 
good bags may always be 
counted on. , , 

Sportsmen, not residents 
of Nova Scotia, must take out 
a license before they can en- 
joy the excellent sport they 
are sure to have. 
These cost $30 
each for the sea- 
son for all 
large game, 
and $10 for 
birds and 
hares. They 
may be se- 
cured at the 
Provincial 



'One of Charlottetown's churches. 







Secretary's office in Halifax, or from 
any county clerk. As there is a penalty, 
ranging from $50 to $100 for shooting 
without government authorization and 
inasmuch as the person fined is liable to 
imprisonment if the fine is not paid, it is 
suggested that no chances be taken. 

Prince Edward Island lies in the 
southern part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 
and the wide Strait of Northumberland, 
quite like the English Channel in disposi- 
tion, separates it from Nova Scotia on 
the south, and New Brunswick on the 
west. This island enjoys the distinction 
of being the most thoroughly cultivated 
-= territory on this side of the Atlantic. It 
is one great garden from land's end to 
"^ land's end, and is not only beautiful in 
points of topography, but its summer 
climate is delightfully free alike from 
penetrating fogs and excessive heat. 
Those who have seen some of the more 
■--^ fertile sections of the Illinois prairies, 
with their undulating surface, scat- 
tering forests, wood-fringed streams, 
and prosperous farms have seen an 
American reproduction of Prince Ed- 
ward Island. The Island is notable as 
a health spot, surrounded as it is bjr 
ocean and strait, whose waters have 
broken the shore line into numberless 
bays and estuaries. Its breezes are 
nothing but pure ones, bearing all of the 
healthful tonic and ozone of old ocean itself. 
The Great North Bay on Prince Edward Is- 
land is skirted with fifty miles of wide sand- 
hills, and the clear waters of St. Lawrence 
Gulf that flow along its front afford one of the 
purest and most notable bathing grounds in the 
world. Charlottetown, the capital of Prince 
Edward Island, is a brisk, well built, well- 
governed and prosperous city of about 15,000 

inhabitants 

There are quite a number of seaside 
resorts on the island, the largest being 
Summerside. which is as well quite a 
ship building and business center; 
Georgetown, Souris, Mt. Stuart, Tignish 
(up at the extreme northern end of the 
island), Alberton, Kensington, Rustico 
and others. Malpeque, .seven miles 
from Kensington, on the north shore, 



" Prince Edward Island is an ideal place to enjoy the i 
delights of sea and country combined." 



has been made famous 
by the deHcious deep- 
sea oysters, which bear 
its name, and are to all 
this region and Canada 
what the Blue Points and 
Cherry Stones are to 
Americans. 

Cape Traverse, 



commoners and four 
senators to the domin- 
ion legislature at Otta- 
v.'a. It's history is 
an interesting one, 
and upon it's pages 
are written 




on Northumber- 
land Strait, has 
many things to 
commend it to 
the summer visi- 
tor, as have 
clay Point, about 
ten miles from 
Chariot tetow n, 
and Tracadie 
Beach, about 
four miles from Bedfor 
Station, on the 
north side of the 
island. 

The shooting 
on Prince Edward Is- 
land during the season 
is exceedingly good, and 
\vild geese, brant, duck, part- 
ridge, woodcock and 

.snipe are to be found - Tmro, which is a progressive city, 

m abundance, while attractive public park." 

such streams as the Monce, the Dunk, Royale 
the Pierrejaques, the Miminigash, the 
Kildare, Tignish and others, teem with 
trout and salmon. From any one of the 
little seaside towns on Prince Edward 
Island, one may have within a half-hour 
or hour's sail an abundance of mackerel 
and deep-sea fishing. 

The island constitutes the smallest of 
the provinces, but maintains equal dig- 
nity with the greatest, having its own 
provincial government, comprising a gov- 
ernor and parliament, and sending six 




the same general out- 
lines which are found 
on that of all this re- 
gion, a strife between 
the French and 
English for terri- 
torial acquisition. 
Acquired by the 
French late in the seven- 
teenth or early in 
the eighteenth 
century, it soon 
attracted a respect- 
able number of settlers 
from Bretagne and Nor- 
mandy, whose produce and 
rains were in great demand 
for the fortified city of 
1 ver\ Louisbourg in Cape 

Breton (then L'Isle 
)r the Royal Island). In 
1745 many of these .settlers were expatri- 
ated after the fall of Louisbourg, but 
after the return of this citadel to France 
the island was again peopled, and when 
in 1755 Louisbourg was recaptured by 
General Wolfe, it would seem that only 
a few of these poor farmers were removed 
from their homes. Some, however, were 
thus deported, especially those about 
Charlottetown (then Port La Joie), and 
the adjoining coast Some ten thousand 
of the descendants of those -who remained, 



and of the Acadians who escaped 
the deportation at Minas, Blomidon 
and other parts of Nova Scotia, yet 
reside in the province. They are 
still to a great extent a people set 
apart from the rest of the popula- 
tion, living in their own villages, 
intermarrying early with their own 
race, speaking the French tongue 
and keeping up in dress, traditions, 
customs, etc., the simple, hospitable, 
kindly traits depicted in "Evan- 
geline." Thus, to a great extent, in 
certain villages, the women and 
maidens wear ' ' the Norman cap and the 
kirtle of homespun;" the young girl 
begins at an early age to spin, weave and 
sew the coarse white linen and heavy 
deep-tinted woolens which she shall bring 
with her to the man of her choice ; and 
the settlement still delights 
in assembling to start a 
young couple in their mar- 






•' The timber railway at Truro is the only one of 
its kind in the Country." 

ried life, to raise a barn or house, and to 
take their pay in an hour or two of danc- 
ing to a simple fiddle, and a supper of 
bread, tea, potatoes and meat, or fish. 

Peaceful, economical, indu.'^trious, in 
a way belonging to a past age, these 
Acadians are a peculiar people, full of 
interest to every traveler fresh from the 
feverish press of business, or the artificial 
but onerous demands 
of modern society 

A remnant of the 
once powerful Micmac 
tribe of Indians, some 
three hundred in num- 
ber, still haunt the 
northern harbors, and 
retain the garb and 
abits of their warlike 
iicestors. They are 
cen hunters, and 
faithful servitors for 
moderate pay, and a 
few days with one of 
them, among the trout, duck 
and plover, is generally a time 
to be long and pleasantly 
remembered. 

Charlottetown, the capital 
and chief commercial city of 
Prince Edward Island, is a 
prosperous little city of 15,- 
000, and in summer is at- 
tractive to visitors, although 
its pleasures and sights are 
soon exhausted. The gener- 
al character of its business 
buildings is excellent, and 
its streets are wide and well 
shaded by day and electric 
lighted by night. In the 
business center of the city is 
Oueen Square and the sub- 
~ ^ stantial government 
. structures, includ- 
ing the provincial 
building and the post 
office. In the form- 
er are the legislature 
halls and the 



_ last lint- c,f the Hras d'Or Lake 
and indented with many bays.' 




'Fertile farms stretch down to pebbly beaches, 
with strips of woodland." 



vhich are fnnged 



Colonial library. Near by are the Con- 
vent of Notre Dame, the Prince of Wales 
College and the normal school. The resi- 
dence of the governor occupies an 
attractive point of land west of the city 
and commands a tine view of the harbor. 
In the suburbs of the city are two col- 
leges, the Wesleyan and 
St. Dunstan's, both well 
supported and prosperous 
institutions. From Char- 
lottetown the various parts 
of the island are reached 
by the lines of local steam- 
ers and the Prince Edward 
Island Railway which runs 
from one end of the island 
to the other, a distance of 
130 miles. 

This city is the termi- 
nus of the Boston and 
Prince Edward Island ser- 
vice of the Plant Line, and 
the popular and staunch 
"Halifax" of this line 
makes the round trip be- 
tween Boston and Char- 
lottetown each week. The steamship 
touches at Halifax and proceeds thence to 
Hawkesbury on the Straits of Canso, 
through which it passes into Northumber- 
land Straits, upon which Charlottetown is 



located. This 1500-mile sea 
trip is the longest, cheapest and 
most delightful of any which 
can be made in one week 
from an American port with- 
out going to Europe. The 
accommodations are of the 
finest ; and the extended views 
afforded of the south shore of 
Nova Scotia, together with 
glimpses of picturesque Cape 
Breton, and the opportunity of 
visiting Prince Edward Island, 
combine to make it a popt:- 
lar outing. For those who 
have only a week to spare for 
vacation pleasures no trip can be coin- 
pared to this for variety, health-giving 
features or economy. The round trip fare 
from Boston is but $16, with an addi- 
tional charge of $2 for stateroom berths 
each way, and for meals, fifty cents being 
the price for breakfast and supper, and 




During the busy season hundreds of inen and boys are engaged in 
curing cod, haddock and halhbut." 

seventy-five cents for dinner. Thus $40 
is an amount sufficient to cover the entire 
week's outing, including carriage rides in 
Halifax and Charlottetown, and a few 
appropriate souvenirs of the outing. 




" It is not an unusual sight to see dried cod hsh stacked up like hay upon the stony beach, awaiting shipment to Eng- 
land or the States." 



The Plant Line fleet upon which these 
tours are made consists of the steamships 
"La Grande Duchesse," "Halifax" and 
"Olivette." The former was launched 
from the Newport News Ship Building 
and Dry Dock Co.'s works, January 30, 
i8g6. She is the queen of the 

North At- lantic and i s 

beautiful .V \ in form and fur- 

nishings ; is con- 




"Port Mulgrave is across the narrow Stiaitsof Canso from 
bury, on Cape Breton, at which the steamers touch. 

structed entirely of steel, and is of 
such enormous size that only the most 
recently built transatlantic leviathans 
exceed her proportions. She measures 
405 feet from stem to stern, has a beam 
of 47 feet 9 inches, and tonnage in pro- 
portion. Her 7000 horse power, quad- 



ruple expansion engines drive two man- 
ganese bronze screws of huge diameter. 
No crack ocean liner is more luxurious 
in interior appointments The wood- 
work of mahogany and quartered oak is 
beautified wherever good taste suggests 
it by rich and elaborate carvings. 

A stairway, handsome enough for a 
royal palace, and a veritable masterpiece 
of the wood worker's art, with elaborate 
newels carved from spec- 
ial designs in Paris, leads 
from the social hall on 
the upper deck to the 
grand dining saloon. 
This is a spacious, well- 
lighted room of ample 
capacity and charming- 
mural decorations in 
white and gold. To 
the traveller accustom- 
ed to the iisual half- 
lighted and sombre- 
toned steamship din- 
ing saloon, that on " La 
Grande Duches.se" is a pleasing 
revelation. Its furnishings are 
in exceedingly good taste, and 
the table service of silver, china 
and glass ware of the finest. 
On the same deck are the 
officers' dining rooms, 
telephone exchange, 
through which all de- 
partments of the ship 
are in speaking com- 
munication with each 
other, and a large num- 
ber of staterooms. 
Above the dining room 
is the large social hall, 
and on the same deck 
the smoking room for 
gentlemen, and the ob- 
servatory for the ladies. 
This latter is a novelty on 
ocean steamships, and illustrates 
the desire of the Plant Line to 
furni.sh everything possible for 
the comfort of its patrons. It is 
a spacious room, built of steel and 
surrounded with windows. It is 
tastefully furnished, and being 
on the upper deck affords the 
ladies, in inclement weather, an 
opportunity to enjoy an unob- 
structed view, while perfectly pro- 
tected from wind 
and rain. 

All the social ji ... |, ^ 

halls and main 11 '• ^« \ 

deck are finished,^" -* ^^ 

in mahogany as' 
well as the ladies' ' 





"St. Peters Canal connects the southern end of the Bras 
d'Or lakes with the Atlantic." 

observatory. The .second-class social 
hall and reception room are finished in 
quartered oak. Every modern contri- 
vance for comfort and convenience is 
found upon this superb ship. She is 
electric lighted 
from mast top to 
stokers' hole. 
Electric bells 
and telephones 
connect the state- 
rooms and all 
parts of the ship. 
She has fine bath 
rooms and bar- 
ber .shop and :i i 
the appurti 
nances of a pala- 
tial hotel. " La 
Grande Duch- 
esse" has twin [ 

screws of manga- \, ,.. i i. 

nese bronze, and 

engines of 7000 horse power of the quad- 
ruple expansion pattern. She has accom- 
modations for 700 passengers, and is in 
every particular and detail as handsome 
and perfect an example of modern ship 
construction as it would be possible to 
find i:pon any sea. She will run reg- 
ularly between Boston and Halifax, 
alternating with the "Olivette," while 



the " Halifax" will run as usual 
between Boston and Charlotte- 
town, touching at Halifax each 
way. The latter ship was built 
on the Clyde, and is 260 feet in 
length, having a breadth of 35 
feet, a tonnage of 1750, and triple 
expansion engines of 3000 horse 
power. She is electric lighted 
throughout, has bath rooms, elec- 
trical call-bells, a grand saloon, 
handsome smoking rooms, and a 
broad promenade deck, the state- 
rooms being particularly comfort- 
able and roomy. The ' ' Olivette " 
was constructed at the famous 
ship buildingA^ards of the Cramp's, 
at Philadelphia, and is fourteen 
feet longer than the "Haliax," 
but otherwise of about the same propor- 
tions. 

Their passenger accommodations are 
superb, the arrangements and furnishings 
of the staterooms exceptionally comfort- 





'uns are large, but all lM(,k l.ii^l.i , \ <•■.:•.■„ iili 
ir white houses and green background." 

able ; many of them being en suite. The 
sides and ceilings of the dining saloon, 
social hall, etc., are iinished in lincrusta, 
and the Avoodwork is of heav}^ walnut, 
highly polished. As the "Olivette" 
was built specially for passenger service 
her deck accommodation for promena- 
ding and lounging is convenient and 
roomy. 

The visitor to the Provinces 
shoiild not fail to spend a portion 
of his time on Cape Breton. It 
may be reached either via Hali- 
fax, taking the Intercolonial Rail- 
way through Truro and New 
Glasgow to Port Mulgrave on the 
straits of Canso, or by steamer 
of the Plant Line around the 
southern shore of Nova Scotia 
from Halifax to Hawkesbury, 
directly across the straits of 
Canso from Port Mulgrave. 



L'pon almost every inlet oi the 



"The steamer on its journey through the Bras d ' ir 
where contentment and hai.ip 

From here the chief places of interest 
in the interior may be reached either 
by rail or by boat. The latter is from 
every point of consideration the most 
interesting, the route being from Mul- 
grave around a point of Cape Breton, 
and through a beautiful archipelago of 
islands to St. Peter's Canal which con- 
nects the Bras d'Or lakes at their western 
and southern end 
with the Atlantic. 
This four 
hours' trip 



ki s tiiuches at various interesting little settlements 
•ss ire everywhere evident." 

flock of sheep on the hill side," and then 
passes through the locks and canal, into 
the Bras d'Or, where the traveler is trans- 
ferred to the larger boat which takes 
him through the lakes to Sydney and 
North Sydney, touching at' Baddeck, 
Whycocomagh and other points en route. 
Mr. Warner, whose delightful and in- 
teresting little book, "Baddeck and that 
Sort of Thing," has 
been for years a 
classic in 
the litera- 




ls made 
upon a 
most comfortable 
little steamer, and 
is full of attractive 
features from the 



'The trip from Port Mu 
through a beautiful 



ilgrave to St. Peter's canal i 
archipelago of islands 



start to the finish. 
The panorama of island and sea is ever 
changing, and the journey may be com- 
pared to that on the St. Lawrence 
through the Thousand Islands. The 
steamer touches at several little villages 
whose white painted, scattering cottages 
look from a distance, as Charles Dudley 
Warner has so happily said: "Like a 




t u r e of 
travel, 
savs of the Bras 
d'Or lakes: "They 
are the most beau- 
tiful salt water lakes I have ever seen, 
and more beautiful than I had imagined 
a bodv of salt water could be. If the 
reader will take the map, he will see that 
two narrow estuaries, the Great and 
Little Bras d'Or, enter the Island of 
Cape Breton, on the ragged northeast 
coast, above the town of Sydney, and 
flow in, at length widening out and 
occupying the heart of the 
sland. The water seeks 
out all the low places, and 
ramifies the interior, run- 
ning away into lovely 
bays and lagoons, leaving 
slender tongues of land 
and picturesque islands, 
and bringing into the 
recesses of the land, to 
the remote country farms 
and settlements, the flavor 
of salt, and the fish and 
mollusks of the briny sea. 
There is very little tide at 



'The villages \\ith th 



king from a distance like a 



flock, of sheep on a hillside 




any time, so that the shores are clean 
and sightly, for the most part like those 
of fresh water lakes. It has all the 
pleasantness of a fresh water lake with 
all the advantagesof a salt one. In the 
streams which run into it are the 
speckled trout, the shad and the salmon ; 
out of its depths are hooked the cod 
and the mackerel, and in its bays fatten 
the oyster. These irregular lakes are 
about a hundred miles long, if you 
measure them skillfully, and in some 
places ten miles broad ; but so indented 
are they that I am not sure but one 
would need, as I was informed, 
ride a thousand 
miles to go round 
them, following 
all its incursions 
into the land." 

Supplementing 
this description, 
no less an author- 
ity than Sir W. 
C. Van Home, 
the President of 
the Canadian Pac- 
ific Railroad, and 
a great traveler, 
has said of the 
' lake region of 
Cape Breton : 
"There is nothing 
on the American 
Atlantic seaboard resembling the inlets 
which expand into seas in the interior of 
Cape Breton, and there are no waters 
that I know nearer than the fjords of 
Norway, or those of the British Columbia 
coast and Alaska, to be compared with 
them in beautjr and interest." 

Prof. Sumichrast, of Harvard College, 
sums up the whole matter in a paragraph 
that is well worth quoting: 

•' I have been down through the Island 
sliooting; fished at Lake Ainslie and on 
the Margaree 
W \ L--Ti?' ^i^ River; visited 
ancient Louis- 
burg and all the in- 
\ '\ teresting portions of 
Isle Madame, and I 
Ij must say Cape Breton 
is one of the most beau- 
tiful places I have ever 
visited. Art as yet has 
done little or nothing for 
Cape Breton, but nature 
has been profusely lavish 
in her gifts. Sylvan re- 
treats; romantic glens, 
wild mountain gorges, 
magnificent lakes; deep, 
swiftly-gliding rivers ; 



\\n baj's 



I have ever seen 



WT^ burp 




gently undulating plains; 
good, level intervales, 
studded with stately 
American elms; gorgeous 
bays; rushing brooks ; 
delicious springs ; healthy 
atmosphere, and an intelli 
gent, fun-loving Scotch race 
of people, hospitable and 
humane to a fault, and pros- 
perous and contented with 
their surroundings and in 
their circumstances- 
this is Cape Breton. 
Fi.sh and game are 
plentiful in their sea- 
son, and I know no "Every 




are startled into flight. 



place where a man 
can spend a couple of months with his 
rod, his dogs and his gun, more enjoya- 
bly than on this fascinating island." 

The journey up through the lakes 
from St. Peter's Canal occupies a full 
day, for there are many landings to be 
touched at and many miles of tortuous 
course to be followed in reaching them. 
At each place there is an interchange of 
passengers and many quaint sights to be 
seen. At one place it will be a crowd 
of Micmac Indians just down from the 




"You may still Tmd primitive (erry boats 
making daily trips." 

mountains, with shoulder hampers loaded 
with plump, lusciot;s blueberries, which 
grow so abundantly hereabouts. At an- 
other, it will be a mixture of Gaelic back- 
countrymen, accompanied on their annual 
tour to Sydney by their women and 
children. And thus' it goes. The trip is 
one of ever-changing interest, for when 
the ever-present panorama of lovely 
scenery is not engaging attention, it is 
some unusual quaint picture of human 
interest. 

The most important places on the 
Bras d'Or lakes are Whycocomagh 




" The old church at Raddeck where seriice"; are still 
conducted in the Gaellic tongue." 

(pronounced by the natives "Hogamah "), 
Grand Narrows and Baddeck. The lat- 
ter has attained quite a degree of fame 
through Mr. Warner's widely-read book, 
but latterly because quite an aristocratic 
colony of summer residents have erected 
beautiful homes here 

Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, the 
inventor of the telephone, owns a whole 
mountain of looo acres, upon which he 
has expended $200,000 on roads. Upon 
its southern .slope up to- 
ward the summit and 
overlooking a wide pan- 
orama or lake and moun- 
tain, he has erected a 
$35,000 residence, and 
near it a fully equipped 
laboratory where he con- 
ducts his experiments in 
electricity. This beauti- 
ful estate bears very ap- 
propriately the Scotch 
name of Beinn Bhreagh. 
George Kennan, the Rus- 
sian traveller andlecturer, 
als.o has a fine residence 
at Baddeck and he and 
his charming wife have 
explored every bay and 
inlet of the lakes and all 
the inland secluded fast- 
nesses, living for weeks 
at a time on their yacht, or in camp. 
Mr. Kennan is an out,spoken enthusiast 
on Cape Breton, and expressed to the 
.writer his belief that there was no more 
beautiful, picturesque, or fascinating 
region anywhere. 

Baddeck is a quaint, sleepy, half open 
eyed v i 1- 
lage. Mr. 
Warner, to 



quote him again, savs "having 
attributed the quiet of Baddeck 
on Sunday to religion, we did 
not know to what to lay the 
quiet on Monday, but its peace- 
fulness continued. I have no 
doubt that the farmers began 
to farm, and the traders to 
trade, and the sailors to sail, 
but the tourist feels that he has 
come to a haven of rest." This 
was written twenty odd years 
ago, but it's the same Baddeck 
to-day. You will find the same 
delightful air of quiet and repose 
everywhere manifest, and you 
can, now as then, look out over the same 
beautiful expanse of glistening water 
with its setting of purple hills. You 
may breathe that deliciou.sly cool air 
— compounded of sea and hemlock, and 
spend days or weeks in this climatic and 
healthgiving paradise, where the very 
living is a joy. 

The country around about Baddeck is 
a most picturesquely wild and beautiful 
region. No one who can afford the time 





' Look where you may on the Bras d'Or, the view is 
one of entrancing be.auty." 

should fail to spend several days, or 
better, weeks in exploring it. For fisher- 
men and hunters it is a paradise. The 
Margaree river, reached easily from Bad- 
deck, is the famous salmon stream of 
Nova Scotia, and every one of the scores 
of crystal brooks are alive with trout 
"St. Anne's Bay, most beautiful of all 
on the island, is 'but ten miles north- 
easterly; and beyond the wild northern 
shore stretches away to Ingonish and 
Cape Smoky, the tip end of the conti- 
nent, bound by a line of stupendous cliffs 
and mountains, back of them the vast 
tablelands of Yictoria County, covered 



The Residence of Alex. Graham Bell, near Baddeck. 



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' Baddeck straggles along the curving shores of a tranqvnl ba\ \\ hose waters are 
seldom disturbed by ships of commeice. ' 



with primeval forests, over which roam 
undisturbed herds of caribou. A drive 
along this coast, or, better, a journey 
afoot, deiDcnding on the warm and 
homely hospitality of the Gaelic settlers, 
reveals a mode of living that for absolute 
primitiveness is nowhere equalled on our 
continent. Here are ssen grinding of 
corn by hand stones, timber hewn in a 
similar crude ^ manner, or 




■ The ja.il at Baddeck, which was turn down 
because of lack of use." 

sawn by mills, home made ; while from 
every door comes the sound of spinning- 
wheel or click of shuttle in the family 
loom. Not less interesting are the Mic- 
mac Indians, who pitch their wigwams 
on the hillside at Baddeck, their perma- 
nent settlements being at Indian Cove 
and at Escasoni near Grand Narrows." 

The Bras d'Or Lakes connect with the 
ocean at their eastern end through two 
long arms or channels, and near the con- 
fluence of ocean and sea are located the 
towns of Sydney and North Sydney. 
The former is by far the more importaiit 
and is the largest town on the island. It 
has enormous coal and shipping interests, 



and while it has many quaint features, 
is, as a whole, such a town as one can 
find many times duplicated in the coal 
regions of Pennsylvania, with the added 
features of one of the finest harbors on' 
the Atlantic seaboard, in which, so the 
statistics of the place show, more than 
fifteen hundred steamships and sailing 
vessels entered and cleared last year. 
Sydney is the terminus of several of the 
European cables, as it is nearer Europe 
than any other place on this continent, 
and a visit to the offices of the company 
is Avorth the making. It is the centre of 
the enormous coal interests of Cape Bre- 
ton, and all about it are the mines from 
which hundreds of 

thousands of 




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'The valley of the Margaree river in Cape Breton 

salmon fishing in Am 



paradise, the stream itself offering the fine 



tons are taken annually, a large propor- 
tion of the coal used in both New York 
and Boston for making gas being mined 
near Sydney. 

About thirty miles from Sydney, 
reached by a narrow guage railway, is 
Louisburg, once counted among the 
strongest fortified places of the world. 
To-day its ramparts are grass-grown 
ruins, with hardly one stone standing 
upon another. 

"Once it was a city with walls of 
stone which made a circuit of two and a 
half miles, were thirty-six feet high, and 
of the thickness of forty feet at the base. 
For twenty-five years the French had 
labored upon it, and had expended up- 
wards of thirty millions of livres or 
nearly six million dollars in com- 
pleting its defences. It was called 
the 'Dunkirk of America.' Gar- 
risoned by the veterans of France, 
and with powerful batteries com- 
manding every point, it bristled with ^ 
most potent pride of war. To-day g'^ 
it is difficult to trace its site among 
the turf which marks the niins. 
Desolation now sits with a ghastly 
smile around the once formidable 
bastions. All is silent except the 
loud reverberation of the ocean whose 
surf surges along the rocky beach. Sel- 
dom has demolition been more complete. 
It seemed built for all time; it has van- 
ished from the face of the earth. 

Its capture by the undisciplined New 
England farmers, commanded by William 
Pepperal, a merchant ignorant of the art 



of war, is one of the most extra- 
ordinary events in the annals of 
history. The zealous crusaders 
set forth upon a task, of the diffi- 
culties of which they had no con- 
ception, and they gained a triumph 
which should make their names 
as immortal as those of the 'noble 
six hundred.' It was a feat 
without a parallel — a marvel 
among the most marvellous 
deeds which man has dared to 
do. 

Restored to France by the 
peace of Aix la Cha 
pelle, v^ Louisburg 




'The camps of the Micmac Indians, where birch bark 
canoes are made by the squaws." 




was once 
again the 
str on 
hold 6f 
France on 
the Atlan- 
tic coast, 
French veterans 
held Cape Breton, 
the key to the 
Gulf of St. Law- 
rence. The briet 
truce was soon 
broken, and then 
came the armies of England, and Gen- 
eral Wolfe sought and won his first laurels 
in the new world. Louisburg fell once 
more and the knell of its glory was rung. 
The conquest of Canada achieved, the 
edict went forth that Louisburg should 
be destroyed. The work of demolition 
was begun. The solid buildings, formed 
of stone brought from France, were torn 
to pieces ; the walls were pulled down 
and the bat- 
teries ren- 
dered use- 
less for all 
time. It 



nd to 
Conti 



llie Nurih American 




took two 
years t o 
complete 
the de- 
struc- 
ion, 
and 
then 
the once proud 
fortress was a 
shapeless ruin. 
Years passed 
by ; the stones 
were carried 
away by the 
dwellers along 
the coast and 
put to peaceful uses; and the hand 
of time was left to finish the work of 
obliteration. Time has been more merci- 
ful than man ; it lias covered the gloomy 
ruin with a mantel of green and has 
healed the gaping wounds which once 
rendered ghastly the land that nature 
made so fair. The surges of the Atlantic 
sound mournfully upon the shore — 
the requiem of Louisburg, the city made 
desolate." 

The modern Louisburg, a place of 
i,ooo inhabitants, takes on quite a little 
commercial importance. It's fine, deep 
water harbor opens directly out on the 
Atlantic, and many boats engaged in 
fashing on the banks off Newfoundland 
call it their home port. One of the 



"The building in which one of the transatlantic cable 
ends at North Sjdney." 




"The rugged promontories nt Cape I'.reton which withstand the savage 
ponndings of the North Atlantic." 

sights of the place is tlie handsome 
monument dedicated last year to com- 
memorate its capture by Capt. Pepperell 
and his New England yeomen. A pro- 
ject which has been talked of, off and on 
for years, is to make Louisburg a port of 
call for transatlantic steamships, so that 
passengers could save time, and a thou- 
sand miles of ocean voyaging by taking, 
or leaving the steamers here. Any one 
having faith in the materialization of this 
scheme, can at present secure corner lots 
in Louisburg at figures which will allow 
of considerable rise. 

Bicyclists will find in Nova Scotia, 
and in many parts of Cape Breton, as 
well as throughout Prince Edward Island, 
a most delightful region for cross-country 
runs. The roads as a general thing are J 
free from sand, and well kept up, and 
as the people are nota- 
ble for their hospitality 
and free-hearted- 
ness, the wheelman 




as well as 
the wheel- 
woman, is 
sure of a 
graceful 
welcome at 
any of the 
thousands 



of quaint little farm- 
houses which are 
found along the rural 
thorough-fares. 

The Plant Line 
transports bicycles 
free, when accompa- 
nied by the owner, 
provided he or she 
has not an unreason- 
able amount of other 
baggage. The Cana- 
dian government has 
amended its former 
regulations and 
now charges no duty on wheels; 
only requiring the owner to sign a 
paper stating that the bicycle is for 
his or her personal use and not in- 
tended for sale. 

In the preceding pages the writer 
has undertaken, in a modest way, to 
touch upon the most interesting feat- 
ures of what is destined to be, as 
soon as its charms are more generally 
known among the travelling public, 
a great and popular vacation region. 

To the average mind. Nova Scotia 
and its sister provinces are located in 
the indefinite somewhere, and yet, in 
point of fact, they are almost at our 
very doors, and "their people bid a 
hearty welcome to all who come to 
their fair land. Through the enter- 
prise of the Plant 
Steamship Line, one 
may walk the 
streets of Boston to- 
day, and to-morrow 
be in Halifax among 
novel scenes,'and in 
a country as foreign 
in all its manner- 
isms and customs as 
■ if it were across the 
wide Atlantic, in- 
stead of just bej'ond 
the threshold of the 
United States. A 
summer's tour to Acadia 
v/ill longbe ahappymem- 
'tt _— ^™. ory to all who make 
aJ — ^=-— > it, and if the journey 
'^^^■■ui thence be upon one 

^^^^^■' of the steamships of 

the Plant Line, 
which are furnished 
and finished with 
everything to make 
a sea trip upon them 
enjoyable, it will 
have an added 
pleasure. 



'Louisburcr, now a sleep_y fishing town, was once the most 
strongly fortified spot in North America. 



SUMMER TOURS IN ACADIA 

By the Plant Line to Halifax and Chailottetown. 



No. I. — Halifax.— Boston to Halifax by the Canada 
Atlantic and Plant Steamship Line. Return by the 
same route. 

No. 2. — Hawkesbury and Charlottetown. ^Boston 

to Hawkesbury or Charlottetown by the Canada 
Atlantic and Plant Steamship Line. Return by 
the same route. 

No. 3.— Halifax and St. John. — Canada Atlantic 
and Plant Steamship Line to Halifax ; Intercolonial 
Railway to St. John, N. B. ; Canadian Pacific Rail- 
way to' Vanceboro ; Maine Central R. R. to Port- 
land ; Boston & Maine R. R. to Boston. 

No. 4. — Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship 
Line to Halifax ; Intercolonial Railway to St. John, 
N. B. ; International S. S. Co. to Boston. 

No. 5-— Through the Land of Evangeline.— Can- 
ada Atlantic and Plant Steamship Line to Halifax ; 
Dom. Atlantic Railway to Digby ; Returning to 
Boston via Halifax over same route. 

No. 6.— The Three Provinces. Canada Atlantic 
and Plant Steainship Line to Charlottetown ; P. 
E. I. Railway to Summerside ; Charlottetown Navi- 
gation Co. to Point du Chene ; Intercolonial Rail- 
way to Halifax, Canada Atlantic and Plant Line to 
Boston. 

No. 7.— The Bras d'Or Lakes.— Canada Atlantic 
and Plant Steamship Line to Halifax ; Intercolon- 
ial Railway to Sydney; Bras d'Or Navigation 
Company to Mulgrave ;'Intercolonial Riy to Hali- 
fax ; Canada Atlantic and Plant Line to Boston. 

No. 8. — Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship 
Line to Hawkesbury ; transfer ; Intercolonial Rail- 
way to Sydney ; Bras d'Or Navigation Company 
to Hawkesbury ; Canada Atlantic and Plant Steam- 
ship line to Boston. 

No. 9. — Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship 
Line to Hawkesbury ; Bras d'Or Navigation Com- 
pany to Sydney ; Intercolonial Railway to Halifax ; 
Canada Atlantic and Plant Line to Boston. 



No. 10.— Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship 
Line to Halifax ; Intercolonial Railway to Mul- 
grave ; Bras d'Or Navigation Company to Sydney ; 
intercolonial Railway to Hawkesbury; transfer; 
Canada Atlantic and Plant Line to Boston. 

No. II. To the Upper Provinces. — Canada At- 
lantic and Plant Steamship Line to Halifax ; In- 
tercolonial Railway to Point Levis ; ferry to Que- 
bec ; Grand Trunk Railway or R. & O. Navigation 
Company steamer to Montreal ; rail lines to Boston. 

No. 12. — Comprehensive and Grand. — Canada 

Atlantic and Plant Steamship Line to Halifax ; In- 
tercolonial Railway or Bras d'Or Navigation Com- 
pany to Sydney ; Intercolonial Railway to Point 
Levis; ferry to Quebec ; Grand Trunk Railway or 
R. & O. Navigatfon Company steamerto Montreal ; 
rail lines to Boston. 

This is one of the grandest and most comprehen- 
sive summer vacation trips available by the tourist. 

No. i3. — Historic Quebec— Canada Atlantic and 
Plant Steamship Line to Charlottetown ; P. E. I. 
Railway to Summerside ; Quebec Steamship Com- 
pany to Quebec ; Grand Trunk Railway or R. & O. 
Navigation Company steamer to. Montreal; rail 
lines to Boston (Meals and berth on Quebec S. S. 
Company's steamer, $5.50 extra). 

No. 14.— Beautiful flontreal. —Canada Atlantic 
and Plant Steamship Line to Charlottetown ; P. E. I. 
Railway to Summerside ; Charlottetown Naviga- 
tion Company to Point du Chene: Intercolonial 
Railway to Point Levis; ferry to Quebec; Grand 
Trunk Railway or R. &. O. Navigation Company 
steamer to Montreal ; rail lines to Boston. 



OTHER TOURS, 



Persons desirous of going to other points and by 
other routes not indicated in the foregoing will be 
given figures on application to the agents at Boston 
or Halifax. 



Rates for at>o-ve toijrs on application to agents. 



GENERAL INFORMATION 

Relative to Local Rates of Passage, Meals on Stea/ziers, Prices of Statcroo/ns. 



HALIFAX SERVICE. 



RATES OF FARE BETWEEN BOSTON AND 
HALIFAX, IN EITHER DIRECTION : . . . . 



First^-Class, one way, including berth in cabin (meals and stateroom berths extra,) $ 7 00 
First=Class, excursion, including berth in cabin " " " 12 00 

Berths in staterooms, sold only to passengers holding first-class or excursion tickets : 
$1 5o, $2 00, $2 50, $3 00 each, according to size and location of rooms. Two berths 
in each room. 

Meals :— Dinner, 75 cts. Breakfast or Supper, go cts, 

CHARLOTTETOWN SERVICE. R^tes of fare between 
boston and hawkesbury. 

First=Class, one ^vay, including berth in cabin (meals and stateroom berths extra,) $ 8 50 
First>Class, excursion, including berth in cabin " " " 15 00 

RATES OF FARE BETWEEN BOSTON AND CHARLOTTETOWN. 



First-class, one way, including berth in cabin (meals and stateroom berths extra,) $ 9 00 
First-Class, excursion, including berth in cabin " " " 16 00 

Berths in stateroom. $2 00 each ; two berths in each room. Limited number family 
rooms, accommodating three persons, $5 00 each. 

Meals: Dinner, 75 cts. Breakfast or Supper, 50 cts. 



The 



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EXPOSITION FLYER" 



is no "ALSO RAN," but a record-breaking, all-round, up-to-date 
imported CIGAR. Like its namesake, the famous "999," it 
has simply rvm away from all other brands on the market. Made 
from the choicest tobacco, it Has No Equal 




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TRADE A\ARK, 



So tJiere is . . . Only one brand in this x^'orld for vie. 
Only one brand rich in luxury, 

The EXPOSITION FL YER no equal has, you see, 
For there's only one, and thafs the one for me. 

BEFORE leaving for your summer outing, over the Plant lines, be sure and prepare 
yourself with smoking material. I carry the largest line of IMPORTED AND 

DOMESTIC CIGARS in the United States, and can suit any taste. Goods put up 
especially for travelers' use. 

Remember I give the consumer the benefit of lowest wholesale prices. I am enabled 
to do this owing to my enormous trade in all grades of cigars. 

My Pipe and Smoking Tobacco Department is the largest in New York, and purchasers 
cannot fail to be suited. 

IW Mail and express orders receive prompt attention. Complete price list sent on 
application. 



MORGAN MARSHALL 



Branch Store : 

387 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 



29 CORTLANDT STREET, cor. Church 
NEW YORK CITY 



•ONEILLS- 

SIXTH AVENUE - 20th to 21st St., - NEW YORK 

Importers and Retailers 



Fine Millinery, Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, China, Glassware, 
House Ftirnisbings, Etc. 






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The Most Popular Department Store in the United States. 

BUYING BY MAIL 

With "O'Neill's," comes as near personal shopping as an infallible mail system can 
make it. We believe no store in the United States is so well equipped for prompt 
delivery by mail as this big establishment. Say what you want to our Mail Order 
Department and you have it by the speediest postal delivery in the World. A host of 
hints as to qualities and prices of all manner of personal and household needs is found 
in our 

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 

which we issue Semi-Annually, and mail free to any address outside of New York City. 

r^"^ WHITE FOR IT._^=3 



Canada Atlantic and Plant 
Steamship Line (u,.,.,, 

Halifax, hawkesbury, charlottetown. 







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H. B. PLANT, President. 

B. W. WRENN, Passeng-er Traffic :\Ianag-er 



M. F. PLANT, Vice-President and Manager. 
F. B. PAPY, General Freight Agent- 



H. L. CHIPMAN, 
Canadian Agent, 

Halifax, N. S. 

J. W. PORTER, 
City Pass, and Ticket Agent, 
207 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 



B. F. BLAKE, 

Ass. Gen'l Freight and Pass. Agent, 

207 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 

A. P. LANE, 

New England Freight Agent, 

207 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 



RICHARDSON & BARNARD, 

Agents, 
Lewis Wharf, Boston, Mass. 

J. J. FARNSWORTH, 

Eastern Passenger Agent, 

261 Broadway, N. Y. 



T™ HALIFAX HOTEL, 



HALIFAX, 

NOVA 

SCOTIA 




THE great improvements and additions made to 
ti:is popuLar Hotel witliin tiie past few years 
have now placed it in the ranks as one of the 
foremost Hotels in Canada. It contains now 
upwards of 200 bedrooms, with ample accommodation 
for at least ^50 guests. The spacious Dining Hall has 
a seating capacity for 200 persons. The Parlors, Read- 
ing Room, and Chambers are all comfortably fitted up 
and supplied with all modern improvements. Incan- 
descent Lights throughout the whole building, in both 
corridors and rooms. An attractive Conservatory and 
magnificent outlook over the Harbor, which is admired 
very much by tourists, is approached from the Ladies' 
Parlor. 

The Cuisine is of the finest; and the proprietors are 
safe in saying that those wiio may honor them witii 
their patronage will feel well satisfied with their visit 
to Halifax. 

TERMS MODERATE 

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H. HESSLEIN & SONS, Proprietors. 



y\LBION p-JoTEL 

GRANT BROS , 
Proprietors : : : 

Terms, One Dollar Fifty 
per Day. 

HALIFAX, N. S. 



The Most Central Hotel in the City, near Custom 
House, Post Office, Principal Banks and One 
Block from Plant Steamship Co.'s Wharf. 




W. C. SMITH 

MERCHANT 
TAILOR.. . . 

No. 141 MOLLIS STREET 
HALIFAX, N. S. 

Importer of the Latest English Novelties 



Winter Tours to the Tropics, 



CUBA 



"THE PEARL OF THE ANTILLES. 



AND 



JAMAICA 



"THE SUNLAND OF THE WORLD. 



REACHED BY THE 



Plant Steamship Line 

At fM fS^ 

OPERATING magnificent steel passenger ships, 
carrying United States mails, sailing from 
Port Tampa, Florida, maintaining a regular schedule 
to Cuba all the year round and making occasional trips 
during the winter to Jamaica. Equipped with every 
modern convenience. Provided with approved safety 
appliances. Commanded by courteous and com- 
petent officers, making a trip upon them enjoyable 
and a pleasant memory. ^^^^,^^^>^^^^ 

H. B. PLANT, B. W. WRENN, 

^auager, Tasscnger Trcthc manager, 

12 West 23d Street, N. Y. Savannah, Ga. 



Rogers 
Locomotive Company 



PATERSON, N. 



44 EXCHANGE PLACE, 



NEW YORK 



ESTABLISHED 1831 




BUILDERS OF 



Locomotive Engines and Tenders 



of every description. 



R. S. HUGHES, Pres. G. E HANNAH, Treas. 

G. H. LONGBOTTOM. Vr. REUBEN WELLS, Supt. 



SYDNEY HOTEL. 



SYDNEY, 
CAPE 
BRETON 




Under New Management. 

J' 

Newly Furnished and Retltted. 

J- 

Cuisine now under the di- 
rection of Thomas Mitchell, 
late of S. S. " Marion," and 
known to all American tour- 
ists. 



THE hotel is beautifully situated, overlooking Sydney Harbor. The trip to Sydney 
and vicinity embraces a sail through the Famous Bkas d'Or Lakes. Historic 
Louisburg only one hour by rail. Boating, Bathing, Fishing, Golf, Tennis. 
Steam Launch now running daily on the charmingly picturesque Mira River. Convenient 
to I. C. R. Station and Steamers to all points. It will be the aim of the management to 
make this hotel the Brightest, Most Attractive and Best Conducted Resort for Tourists in 
the Provinces. Without doubt the Palace Hotel of the East. Terms moderate. Accom- 
modation for one hundred. Up to date in every particular. : : : : : : : : 

JAMES P. FAIRBANKS, Proprietor, $ SYDNEY. 



Without a Peer. 

The passenger service of the Queen & Crescent 
is without a peer among the Southern Lines. The 
road is fully equipped with block signal system, 
safety signals and interlocking device at railway 
crossings. The track is built with 7^-pound steel 
rails, and stone ballast. Trains are gas-lighted 
and steam-heated, and provided with electric / 
headlights. By traveling on the Q. & C. one 
secures the benefit of every appliance for 
safety and every provision for comfort. 
Solid vestibuled trains and through sleepers 

Send your name and address to "W. C. KINKARSON, General Passenger Agent, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, for books, maps or information on the South. 



Route 




Kelley & Glassey, 

WINE AND 

SPIRIT 
MERCHANTS 

LEITH HOUSE, e^'"-'"''''^' "^'S 
HALIFAX, N. S. 



THE 
T EARMENT W 

TRURO, N. S. 



OTEL 



A. H. LEARMENT, 



Proprietor 



Finest Sample Rooms in 
the Maritime Provinces 



THIS well known hotel has been replaced by 
a new and modern building, newly fur- 
nished throughout, and is now one of the 
most modern hotels in the Maritime Provinces. 
Situated close to the railway station, tourists and 
commercial travelers will fmd it the most con- 
venient hotel in Truro. Within five minutes of 
Truro Park. 



Bras d'Qr Hotel 



BADDECK, C. B. 



ALEX. ANDERSON, 



Proprietor 



ClRST class accommodation 

and attendance. Livery 

stable in connection with 

hotel. :::::::: 

Tourists carried to tlshing resorts and 
places of interest at reasonable rates. 
All correspondence promptly an- 
swered. 



Windsor Hotel 



FIFTH AVENUE 



46th to 47th St., 



NEW YORK 



Unsurpassed in location, perfect in all 
its appointments, patronized by the 
elite of AMERICA and EUROPE. 



...TERMS... 

American Plan — $4.00 per day and upward. 
European Plan — $1.50 per day and upward. 
Free Coaches and Transfer of Baggage to 

and from the Grand Central Depot. 
Music during the dinner hour. 

WARREN P. LELAND 

Proprietor 



FOUR FAMOUS HOTELS ON THE WEST COAST 

OF FLORIDA. 

Owned and Operated by the 

PLANT SYSTEM, 



Under the management ot D. P. Hathaway. 



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THE TAMPA BAY PALACE, Tampa, Florida. 
The ilodern Wonder of the World. 

THE INN, Port Tampa, Florida. THE SEMINOLE, Winter Park, Florida. 
THE OCALA HOUSE, Ocala, Florida. 

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H. B. PLANT, President. B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager. 



PLANT SYSTEM, $ $ 5,209 miles 

Perfect Passenger Service, reaching the most important points in Alabama, 
South Carohna, Georgia, Florida, Cuba, Jamaica and Nova Scotia 




Fast passenger trains, with Pullman finest sleeping cars attached, run between all points. 
The finest health and pleasure resorts of Florida are reached by the lines of the Plant System. 



H. B. PLANT, President 



B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Ma^iag-er 






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